Definitions for relic

relic rel·ic

Spelling: [rel-ik]
IPA: /ˈrɛl ɪk/

Relic 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 55 anagrams from letters in relic (ceilr).

Definitions for relic

noun

  1. a surviving memorial of something past.
  2. an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past:
  3. a surviving trace of something:
  4. relics. remaining parts or fragments. the remains of a deceased person.
  5. something kept in remembrance; souvenir; memento.
  6. Ecclesiastical. (especially in the Roman Catholic and Greek churches) the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a saint, martyr, or other sacred person, preserved as worthy of veneration.
  7. a once widespread linguistic form that survives in a limited area but is otherwise obsolete.

Origin of relic

1175-1225; Middle English Old French relique Latin reliquiae (plural) remains (> Old English reliquias), equivalent to reliqu(us) remaining + -iae plural noun suffix

Examples for relic

The church was closed due to bad weather when the relic, along with a golden cross, was taken.

But, after all, this is an old-fashioned method, and the rhinoceros is a relic.

Even the Aughties Beck—The Information, parts of Guero, parts of Modern Guilt—seems like a relic at this point.

Enjoy Messi while you can—he might play on for a few years yet but everything he represents is already a relic.

Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

I found it in this cell, after the death of the martyr, and have preserved it as a relic.

"A wonderful talisman is the relic of a good mother, sir," said the old parson.

Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.

I brought out my relic of other days, and displayed it to the boys in the shanty.

The mistresses of the present princes are a relic of polygamy.

Word Value for relic
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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