Definitions for fifes

fifes fife

Spelling: [fahyf]
IPA: /faɪf/

Fifes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in fifes (effis).

Definitions for fifes

noun

  1. a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups.
  2. Also called Fifeshire [fahyf-sheer, -sher] /ˈfaɪf ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in E Scotland.
  3. a region in E Scotland. 504 sq. mi. (1305 sq. km).

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to play on a fife.

Origin of fifes

1540-50; German Pfeife pipe1

Examples for fifes

Never been happier in all my life / Since the day that I moved to fife.

When Bead takes a bullet to the head and lies dying, he asks fife to hold his hand.

But is it not better than the simple drum and fife of a common training-day?

Scotland is where William and Kate's met at the University of St Andrews in fife.

fife, the dominant one, is so ashamed that he insults Bead whenever he gets the chance.

We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.

Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

“It would be a swell joke on tout-le-monde if you & fife & I spent the summer at Juan-les-Pins,” she wrote.

They might have been read to an accompaniment of fife and drums.

There were brass bands, drum and fife bands, and bands of bagpipes.

Word Value for fifes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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