Definitions for Emerita

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Emerita e·mer·i·ta

Spelling: [ih-mer-i-tuh]

IPA: /ɪˈmɛr ɪ tə/

Emerita is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in Emerita (aeeimrt).

Definitions for Emerita

noun

1. a woman with such status.

adjective

1. (of a woman) retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position:

Origin of Emerita

Latin, feminine of ēmeritus emeritus

Examples for Emerita

Ana Marie Cox is a Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days.

The said Schedelius furthermore setteth downe, that his emerita martyred in Rhetia.

No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.

It was the capital of Lusitania, and was called emerita Augusta, from the first word of which title comes the present name.