Definitions for Howe

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Howe howe

Spelling: [hou]

IPA: /haʊ/

Howe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Howe (ehow).

Definitions for Howe

noun

1. a hole.
2. the hold of a ship.
3. a hollow; dell.
4. E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
5. Elias, 1819–67, U.S. inventor of the sewing machine.
6. Gordon (Gordie) born 1928, Canadian ice-hockey player.
7. Irving, 1920–93, U.S. social historian and literary critic.
8. Julia Ward, 1819–1910, U.S. writer and reformer: author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (wife of Samuel Gridley Howe).
9. Richard (Earl Howe"Black Dick") 1726–99, British admiral (brother of William Howe).
10. Samuel Gridley [grid-lee] /ˈgrɪd li/ (Show IPA), 1801–76, U.S. surgeon and humanitarian.
11. William, 5th Viscount, 1729–1814, British general in the American Revolutionary War.

adjective

1. hollow.
2. deep.

Origin of Howe

1325-75; Middle English (north and Scots), alteration of holl; see hollow

Examples for Howe

But can you, my dear Miss howe, condescend to carry on a private correspondence with me?

howe freed himself and stood erect, with one arm hanging at his side.

Grace had eaten little and drunk nothing; but howe was slightly stimulated.

In the early morning of August 27, howe launched a three-prong attack.

Don't you see, my dear Miss howe, how they are all determined?

Now the boys were just standing at the end of the table and watching howe finish his dessert.

She had on a blue boy-coat, and to the right lapel was fastened a three-inch red cloth 9, howe's number.

Through all of this, however, howe was, as he always is, the workhorse of the Red Wings.

There, Miss howe, is the reason given for their jehu-driving.

howe faked the shot to Worsley's left, and Worsley went down on the ice to that side.