Definitions for leper

leper lep·er

Spelling: [lep-er]
IPA: /ˈlɛp ər/

Leper 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 45 anagrams from letters in leper (eelpr).

Definitions for leper

noun

  1. a person who has leprosy.
  2. a person who has been rejected or ostracized for unacceptable behavior, opinions, character, or the like; anathema; outcast.

Origin of leper

1350-1400; Middle English lepre leprosy Latin lepra Greek lépra, noun use of feminine of leprós scaly, akin to lépos scale, lépein to peel

Examples for leper

After being forced to fly next to this leper, their disgust is palpable.

"I thought we had done with the leper," cried Flambeau, and spat on the road.

The leper himself would never have dreamed of his touching him.

No; he must himself warn Dom Diego that he was a leper—a pariah.

I read a little more than they did, so I could say, “Touch me not, leper!”

Cass, the teller, certainly shunned him as he would a leper.

When you look at yourself in the glass you see the typical appearance of the leper.

It seemed as if she was regarding me almost with horror, as if I were a sort of a leper.

Money is a disease that he spreads when he walks, like the scales that fall from a leper.

Ay, but the fault was theirs who drove him to it, leaving him only a leper's life.

Word Value for leper
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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