Definitions for Raffles

Raffles raf·fles

Spelling: [raf-uh lz]
IPA: /ˈræf əlz/

Raffles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Raffles (aefflrs).

Definitions for Raffles

noun

  1. a gentlemanly burglar, amateur housebreaker, or the like.
  2. Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  3. a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
  4. rubbish.
  5. Nautical. a tangle, as of ropes, canvas, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to dispose of by a raffle (often followed by off):

verb (used without object)

  1. to take part in a raffle.

Origin of Raffles

1925-30; after Raffles, hero of The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung (1866-1921), English novelist

Examples for Raffles

raffles returned to Singapore on the 10th of October, 1822, on his way to England.

The Singapore hotels were crowded and we got the last room in the raffles Hotel.

These raffles are an attempt to pump up the lagging numbers of small donors at low cost.

Fortune laughed along with him—he won at all sorts of things, not only cards but raffles and games of chance.

Thus, he has amped up the number of raffles and added celebrities to the mix.

As little as these raffles cost for campaigns to put on, they cost even less money for people to enter.

The principal hotel is the "raffles," which I should imagine is also the worst.

From the very first raffles fully realized the value of the acquisition.

raffles was not able to remain for more than a few days at Singapore.

The position of raffles in respect to Singapore was indeed remarkable.

Word Value for Raffles
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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