Definitions for sizar

sizar siz·ar

Spelling: [sahy-zer]
IPA: /ˈsaɪ zər/

Sizar is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in sizar (airsz).

Definitions for sizar

noun

  1. (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.

Origin of sizar

First recorded in 1580-90; size1 + -ar3

Examples for sizar

He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book.

His wife was dead; his only son, who had been a sizar at Cambridge, was a curate in London.

The two incidents that we have narrated made Julian fear that his position as a sizar would be one of continual annoyance.

In a month he had passed his first examinations and was made a sizar.

Young Aubrey was sent to school, and thence to college as a sizar: he obtained several prizes, and took a high degree.

He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen.

A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner; he was not exactly a servant, but made himself generally useful.

From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University.

Let me see; the next time I heard of him was when he attempted to enter college as a sizar, and failed.

In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained.

Word Value for sizar
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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