Definitions for diadems

diadems di·a·dem

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

Diadems is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in diadems (addeims).

Definitions for diadems

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 diadems

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 diadems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for diadems
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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