Definitions for Harpies

Harpies Har·py

Spelling: [hahr-pee]
IPA: /ˈhɑr pi/

Harpies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in Harpies (aehiprs).

Definitions for Harpies

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
  2. (lowercase) a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; shrew.
  3. (lowercase) a greedy, predatory person.

Origin of Harpies

Latin Harpȳia, singular of Harpȳiae Greek Hárpȳiai (plural), literally, snatchers, akin to harpázein to snatch away

Examples for Harpies

What boys, then, owed money to these harpies as well as Ernest?

Blair, an Englishman, finds fault with the picture of the harpies in Virgil.

Some said that the harpies had the faces and forms of women.

On this they are immediately set upon by Jews and harpies of every description.

At present nobody can save her from the hands of these harpies.

This stranger was Astolpho, who drove the harpies to Cocy´tus.

harpies of this ilk are the bane of sight-seeing all the world over.

A moment or two afterwards the harpies had been upon him, and then he had gone off in his anger.

So the harpies were justified, so far as this one phenomenon was concerned.

So are the harpies, and Medusa, and the Fates who measure and cut and spin.

Word Value for Harpies
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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