Definitions for lepers

lepers lep·er

Spelling: [lep-er]
IPA: /ˈlɛp ər/

Lepers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in lepers (eelprs).

Definitions for lepers

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 lepers

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 lepers

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lepers
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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