Definitions for lilies

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lilies lil·y

Spelling: [lil-ee]

IPA: /ˈlɪl i/

Lilies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in lilies (eiills).

Definitions for lilies

noun

1. any scaly-bulbed plant of the genus Lilium, having showy, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped flowers. Compare lily family.
2. the flower or the bulb of such a plant.
3. any of various related or similar plants or their flowers, as the mariposa lily or the calla lily.
4. fleur-de-lis, especially as the symbol of France.
5. Bowling. a split in which the five, seven, and ten pins remain standing.
6. a female given name.

Idioms

1. gild the lily. gild1 (def 4).

adjective

1. white as a lily:
2. delicately fair:
3. pure; unsullied:
4. pale; fragile; weak.

Origin of lilies

before 1000; Middle English, Old English lilie Latin līlium; compare Greek leírion

Examples for lilies

At least for now, Modern Family is taking the less-is-more approach, and resisting turning it into The lily Show.

lily told how she once found her mother sitting in front of the television and crying.

And were the lily and her lover to be more fortunate than all those millions?

Deer came at night to feed on the lily buds on the lake borders.

lily Allen explained away the poor sales and ho-hum critical reception to Sheezus by…basically blaming other people.

Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much.

He was altogether unprepared for the reception which the lily received.

One person who tuned into my story was Matt Creed, the director of lily.

Then at last she reached forth her hand and broke the lily from its stalk.

I met him because his daughter, lily, and my daughter, Harley, are friends.