Definitions for fils

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fils fils

Spelling: [fils]

IPA: /fɪls/

Fils is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in fils (fils).

Definitions for fils

noun

1. a coin and monetary unit of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the 100th part of a dinar.
2. a bronze coin of the United Arab Emirates, the 100th part of a dirham.
3. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 100th part of a riyal.
4. son: sometimes used after a name with the meaning of Jr., as in Dumas fils.
5. fils.

Origin of fils

1885-90; Arabic, probably Greek phóllis a kind of coin

Examples for fils

Dumas fils, Ibsen, Brieux prove the truth of this statement.

Mon fils en allant en Angleterre pourrait passer par chez vous et vous donner des nouvelles de Paris.

At the wheel of a Winnebago, dubbed the “Mitt Mobile,” Romney fils visited all 99 counties in Iowa.

He was a gentleman, a fils de famille, of the English aristocracy.

Berteil père was mollified, if sadly disillusionised, by this ocular demonstration of pluck on the part of Berteil fils.

Oh, mon fils, thou wilt write often, and I must know all the news.

With a sigh he concluded: "The dinners I have eaten under that roof, mon fils!"

He could say “mon fils,” just as he could say (with equal veracity) “mon automobile.”

Dumas fils was then twenty-six years of age, and she calls him "my son."

Madiou (fils) describes the mutual cruelties of the French and natives.