Definitions for hussars

hussars hus·sar

Spelling: [hoo-zahr]
IPA: /hʊˈzɑr/

Hussars is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in hussars (ahrsssu).

Definitions for hussars

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 hussars

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

Examples for hussars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hussars
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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