Definitions for Serpent

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Serpent ser·pent

Spelling: [sur-puh nt]

IPA: /ˈsɜr pənt/

Serpent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in Serpent (eenprst).

Definitions for Serpent

noun

1. a snake.
2. a wily, treacherous, or malicious person.
3. the Devil; Satan. Gen. 3:1–5.
4. a firework that burns with serpentine motion or flame.
5. an obsolete wooden wind instrument with a serpentine shape and a deep, coarse tone. Compare ophicleide.
6. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Serpens.

Origin of Serpent

1250-1300; Middle English (Middle French) Latin serpent-, stem of serpēns; see Serpens

Examples for Serpent

Had she produced a serpent, I could not have been more frightened.

I think you'd better get rid of that Shandy serpent; he seems ripe for any deviltry.

Cursed be the serpent that bit you and had not sufficient power in its venom to kill!

But the Rector felt that he was listening to the excuses of a serpent.

And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."

In moving I had trodden on or touched the serpent with my foot, and it had bitten me just above the ankle.

Isbell's book is titled The Fruit, the Tree and the serpent: Why We See So Well.

But who can say that the serpent of his tribe has forgotten his wisdom?

We are on the last leg of the walk, and beginning to lose hope of a serpent score.

In fact I wanted to call the novel “Sex with the serpent Girl” but was overruled.