Definitions for sheik

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Spelling: [sheek, sheyk]
IPA: /ʃik, ʃeɪk/

Sheik is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in sheik (ehiks).

Definitions for sheik

noun

  1. Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
  2. Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.

Origin of sheik

First recorded in 1570-80, sheik is from the Arabic word shaykh old man

Examples for sheik

Yezidis believe sheik Adi was the possible reincarnation of Tawuse Melek.

Certainly, sheik; it will not take him five minutes to make his preparations.

“They are army, not militia,” the sheik repeated throughout our conversation.

When the sheik woke, after two hours' sleep, he drank some broth.

The hammock had been lowered to the ground, and Ali was holding the cup to the sheik's lips.

The sheik seemed to keep his young fighter on hand for meetings with journalists.

"Don't say any thing about it, sheik," Edgar said earnestly.

One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of sheik Adi ibn Musafir.

sheik Rogo used to say my mother was fair: she gave one son to Obama and the other to Osama.

"You are friends now," the sheik said, with a tone of pleasure.

Word Value for sheik
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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