Definitions for Lamas

Lamas La·mas

Spelling: [lah-mahs]
IPA: /ˈlɑ mɑs/

Lamas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Lamas (aalms).

Definitions for Lamas

noun

  1. Carlos Saavedra [kahr-laws sah-ah-ve-drah] /ˈkɑr lɔs ˌsɑ ɑˈvɛ drɑ/ (Show IPA), Saavedra Lamas, Carlos.
  2. a priest or monk in Lamaism.

Origin of Lamas

1645-55; Tibetan lama (spelling bla ma) literally, superior one (in Tibetan applied only to monks of high rank)

Examples for Lamas

The Lamas are extremely superstitious, and pretend to magic.

It was they who gave the Lamas of Tucker information of my intention to go to Lhassa.

The person of His Holiness is surrounded by five thousand Lamas.

The stress of becoming parents after only a year of knowing each other and being married was tearing Richie and Lamas apart.

He received two hundred lashes with whips, wielded by two Lamas.

And who better than the Lamas could make peace between God and him?

The party then continued their career, the Lamas having fallen in.

All the Lamas of the convent, with their chief, stood about it, when we entered the court.

When he became blind, the Lamas were thrown into a state of desperation.

In this condition he was dragged before the Lamas, only to be decapitated!

Word Value for Lamas
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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