Definitions for Sepoy

Sepoy se·poy

Spelling: [see-poi]
IPA: /ˈsi pɔɪ/

Sepoy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Sepoy (eopsy).

Definitions for Sepoy

noun

  1. (formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.

Origin of Sepoy

1675-85, in sense “horseman”; 1710-20 for current sense; variant of sipahi Urdu Persian sipāhī horseman, soldier, derivative of sipāh army; cf. spahi

Examples for Sepoy

We were called away to help at Miapore, where a sepoy regiment mutinied.

From the tone in which the sepoy spoke, I thought he was in earnest.

To the walls, however, the sepoy directed his closest scrutiny.

“Very well; I will not return until the time appointed,” said the sepoy.

“I will pay you the tribute of assuring you that it is not,” replied the sepoy.

In May, sixty-one artillerymen and four sepoy regiments were there.

"Perhaps he saved his master's life in the sepoy rebellion," she thought.

I inquired, with an eagerness which seemed to amuse the sepoy.

He defeated the French sepoy cavalry and captured the fortress at Alighur.

Taken in famine time by the daughter of a sepoy (native soldier).

Word Value for Sepoy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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