Definitions for Hussar

Hussar hus·sar

Spelling: [hoo-zahr]
IPA: /hʊˈzɑr/

Hussar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Hussar (ahrssu).

Definitions for Hussar

noun

  1. (originally) one of a body of Hungarian light cavalry formed during the 15th century.
  2. a member of a class of similar troops, usually with striking or flamboyant uniforms, in European armies.

Origin of Hussar

1525-35; Hungarian huszár Serbo-Croatian hȕsār brigand, pirate Medieval Latin cursārius corsair

Examples for Hussar

Is not this meeting here—this strolling about a garden with a young gentleman, a hussar!

Thanks to the hussar's saddle on which I was sitting, I kept my seat.

Glancing, however, at Boris, he saw that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line.

"I vote for your wearing that," said the hussar, quite smitten with her beauty.

"There is a name greater than them all," cried the hussar with eagerness.

At last came number 82—'Maurice Tiernay, hussar of the Ninth.'

She could not lift her face, but only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar's jacket.

"Spooney, I should say," drawled out the hussar, caressing his moustache.

And there, you know who that is, that beau ideal of a hussar?

An hussar was Natasha, and a Circassian was Sonya with burnt-cork mustache and eyebrows.

Word Value for Hussar
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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