Definitions for diadem

diadem di·a·dem

Spelling: [dahy-uh-dem]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ əˌdɛm/

Diadem is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in diadem (addeim).

Definitions for diadem

noun

  1. a crown.
  2. a cloth headband, sometimes adorned with jewels, formerly worn by monarchs in Asia Minor and other parts of the East.
  3. royal dignity or authority.

verb (used with object)

  1. to adorn with or as if with a diadem; crown.

Origin of diadem

1250-1300; Middle English diademe (Anglo-French) Latin diadēma Greek diádēma fillet, band, equivalent to diadē- (verbid stem of diadeîn to bind round + -ma noun suffix

Examples for diadem

On a throne of rocks, with a robe of clouds,   And a diadem of snow.

Inside three minutes the two craft were clear of the diadem.

I do this every day, and yet the joy of waiting and at last touching again the diadem, only seems to increase as the days pass.

It is a diadem fit for a King among kings, an Emperor among emperors.

Americans are all equal—this is one of the gems in our diadem.

By the diadem he wore upon his head Gudea knew that the figure must be a god.

Mrs. Roberts had been at work hunting diamonds for His diadem.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

How he would plead for the power that would crown him with the diadem of a preacher!

In truth it was upon that brow that he would have wished to place the diadem.

Word Value for diadem
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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