Definitions for Lucerne

Lucerne lu·cerne

Spelling: [loo-surn]
IPA: /luˈsɜrn/

Lucerne is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in Lucerne (ceelnru).

Definitions for Lucerne

noun

  1. alfalfa.
  2. a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  3. the capital of this canton, on Lake of Lucerne.
  4. Lake of. Also called Lake of the Four Forest Cantons. a lake in central Switzerland. 24 miles (39 km) long; 44 sq. mi. (114 sq. km).

Origin of Lucerne

1620-30; alteration (by association with Latin lucerna lamp) of French luzerne Provençal luzerno glowworm (the plant was so called in allusion to its bright seeds); akin to Old Provençal luze

Examples for Lucerne

Elena had spent part of the summer at lucerne,—she had just come from Paris.

We went to lucerne, and thence to Como, where I intended to leave her.

Should I really have cared so much for lucerne and Nuremberg if you hadn't been with me?

Not at all; he may have moved to this hotel, or returned to lucerne.

Once he has been in Paris, where I met him, and once to lucerne for a fortnight.

They always have boats there to take people that come along this road to lucerne.

If he had known it, it was with the Dance of Death on the bridge of lucerne.

We were two in the great world, and lucerne brought us to one.

And, in any event, on such a journey lucerne must come first.

Then he was silent, and she was silent, and the lights of lucerne continued to draw nearer and nearer.

Word Value for Lucerne
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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