Definitions for linoleum

linoleum li·no·le·um

Spelling: [li-noh-lee-uh m]
IPA: /lɪˈnoʊ li əm/

Linoleum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in linoleum (eillmnou).

Definitions for linoleum

noun

  1. a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
  2. any floor covering similar to this.

Origin of linoleum

1863; Latin līn(um) flax, linen + oleum oil; formerly trademark

Examples for linoleum

In being gutted by a linoleum knife, that dark image that Hannibal had instilled in him had been freed.

Painted arrows on the linoleum floor direct you where to stand in line.

Her door is the one at the far end of a linoleum hall, nearest the street.

The carpet covered only two-thirds of the floor, and was eked out by linoleum.

Would you finish your tea, and then we will buy the linoleum for the cubicles.

"This will not stop the public," he says, as grown men weep around him and harsh lights beam onto the linoleum.

He would slap me, hard, one time knocking me to the linoleum floor.

We went into the bedroom and, gazing on the linoleum, my enthusiasm returned to me.

Above the felt we laid the linoleum, with more pitch and tar to stick it.

"Looks like a linoleum pattern," was the comment of one of the men.

Word Value for linoleum
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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