Definitions for plinth

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Spelling: [plinth]
IPA: /plɪnθ/

Plinth is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in plinth (hilnpt).

Definitions for plinth

noun

  1. a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.
  2. a square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal.
  3. Also called plinth course. a projecting course of stones at the base of a wall; earth table.
  4. (in joinery) a flat member at the bottom of an architrave, dado, baseboard, or the like.

Origin of plinth

1555-65; earlier plinthus Latin Greek plínthos plinth, squared stone, brick, tile

Examples for plinth

Mrs. plinth enquired, still distrustful of Mrs. Roby's thoroughness.

The plinth, or base, is but slightly moulded, and is 23 inches in height.

I half-expected him to barnstorm out in riding boots and harangue us, Mussolini-style, underlit from a plinth.

Mrs. plinth looked disapproving, and Mrs. Ballinger visibly wavered.

As abruptly as he had leapt upon the plinth did he now leap down from it.

But she, too, kept her eyes glued to the figures up there on the plinth.

A giant toy duck was waddling on top of the fourth plinth when I arrived in Trafalgar Square mid-morning.

The club had always respected this idiosyncrasy of Mrs. plinth's.

"I always deprecate anything like a scandal—" Mrs. plinth continued.

But the lower will seem to be larger, because it will project to the edge of the plinth.

Word Value for plinth
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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