Definitions for phyle

phyle phy·le

Spelling: [fahy-lee]
IPA: /ˈfaɪ li/

Phyle is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in phyle (ehlpy).

Definitions for phyle

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece) a tribe or clan, based on supposed kinship.

Origin of phyle

1860-65; Greek phȳlḗ, akin to phŷlon phylon

Examples for phyle

The walls and towers also of the city of Eleutherae and the fortress of phyle are fine specimens of Hellenic fortifications.

Professor phyle, who had stuck his head out of the curtains, drew it in again suddenly, like the timid turtle.

With this object a protecting force was despatched to the "boundary estates," about two miles south of phyle.

There was a marked rustle of the curtains in front of Professor phyle at this episode.

Presently Thrasybulus, with about seventy followers, sallied out from Thebes, and made himself master of the fortress of phyle.

Hence, he adds, were derived the names of the demes in the Dionysiac phyle at Alexandria, viz.

There was Professor phyle, the celebrated phrenologist—a tall man, with a gaunt face and long gray hair.

When you chose to condemn the ten generals, my phyle supplied the Prytanes, and I alone stood out against you.

As to the men of phyle, they too blocked the street at the opposite end, and facing the foe.

Word Value for phyle
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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