Definitions for Mensa

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Mensa men·sa

Spelling: [men-suh]

IPA: /ˈmɛn sə/

Mensa is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Mensa (aemns).

Definitions for Mensa

noun

1. Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Table, a southern constellation near Octans.
3. an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.

adjective

1. pertaining to or noting a divorce that forbids spouses to live together but does not dissolve the marriage bond.

Origin of Mensa

First recorded in 1685-95, mensa is from the Latin word mēnsa table

Examples for Mensa

On this chart the mensa is shown in a position which is unmistakable.

I am allowed a separation a mensa et thoro, and I am not allowed divorce.

As the lawyers say, is it a 'vinculo', or only a 'mensa et thoro?'

Match.com and mensa have joined up, making it easier than ever to find fellow geniuses to date.

This track is so confusing and multi-layered, it would take a team of mensa members with Ph.D.s in Ebonics to decode.

A divorce a mensa et thoro could also be granted for cruelty.

He plunged into the declination of mensa with the fervour of a convert.

Curtis put up on his MySpace page a fake certificate proclaiming himself a member of mensa, leaving Dutschke outraged.

There was no provision for his mensa, for he was "a lover of poverty."

But perhaps it consoles her to think that she knows the genitive of mensa.