Definitions for Dumas

Dumas Du·mas

Spelling: [dy-mah or, English, doo-mah, dyoo- Dumas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Dumas (admsu).

Definitions for Dumas

noun

  1. Alexandre [a-lek-sahn-druh] /a lɛkˈsɑ̃ drə/ (Show IPA), ("Dumas père") 1802–70, and his son, Alexandre, (“Dumas fils”), 1824–95, French dramatists and novelists.
  2. Jean-Baptiste André [zhahn-ba-teest ahn-drey] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1800–84, French chemist.
  3. a town in N Texas.
  4. (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
  5. (initial capital letter) an elective legislative assembly, established in 1905 by Nicholas II, constituting the lower house of parliament.

Origin of Dumas

1865-70; Russian, Old Russian dúma assembly, council (an early homonym with dúma thought); cognate with Bulgarian dúma word, Slovak duma meditation; Slavic *dum- probably Gothic dōms judgment

Examples for Dumas

The Girl Who Loved Camellias by Julie Kavanagh The courtesan who seduced Paris—and inspired Dumas and La Traviata.

Dumas was then allowed to continue, but only for few seconds.

Negotiations were intense, but when the dust settled, Dumas had accepted half a million dollars for a 40 percent stake.

But Nodier was far from being the gourmet that Dumas supposed him to be.

He prepared his effects as studiously and almost as dexterously as Dumas himself.

He was in some sort the p. 59grandsire of the Buridan and the Antony of Dumas.

The book begins with the 3-year-old Dumas discovering that his father has died, and promptly arming himself and heading upstairs.

And shaking hands with him, I went off to see the younger Dumas.

When Hugo wrote for himself he wrote almost as simply and straightforwardly as Dumas.

It was the elder Dumas who said, "Truth is liable to be left-handed in history."

Word Value for Dumas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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