Definitions for lucres

lucres lu·cre

Spelling: [loo-ker]
IPA: /ˈlu kər/

Lucres is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in lucres (celrsu).

Definitions for lucres

noun

  1. monetary reward or gain; money.

Origin of lucres

1350-1400; Middle English Latin lucrum profit; akin to Old English lēan reward, German Lohn, Gothic, Old Norse laun

Examples for lucres

And on what other principle is lucre himself now proceeding, or has ever proceeded?

Was the man a trickster, it must be more for the love than the lucre.

America with lakes of lucre, waves of wampum, a Superstorm Sandy of simoleons, a Hurricane Katrina of cash.

The professor does not practice this art for the lucre of gain, but he understands it in detail.

These lacquer artists, as I have indicated, worked not for lucre, but for love.

Here are our instruments of deception, our poisoned 75 sources of lucre.

He should stop wasting his time taunting Rick Perry with penny-ante bets and put his lucre to good use.

Spain would have the princess lucre, in despite of Holland and all the Jews.

Other causes are added to lucre, or are the consequences of it.

It is a work of love, not of lucre; and, as such, is commended to the brotherhood.

Word Value for lucres
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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