Definitions for smiles

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smiles smile

Spelling: [smahyl]

IPA: /smaɪl/

Smiles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in smiles (eilmss).

Definitions for smiles

noun

1. the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
2. favor or kindly regard:
3. a pleasant or agreeable appearance, look, or aspect.

Verb phrases

1. smile at, to regard with pleasure or amusement, as with a smile. to regard with mild derision:

verb (used with object)

1. to assume or give (a smile, especially of a given kind):
2. to express by a smile:
3. to bring, put, drive, etc., by or as by smiling:

verb (used without object)

1. to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
2. to regard with favor:
3. to have a pleasant or agreeable appearance or aspect, as natural scenes, objects, etc.:

Origin of smiles

1250-1300; Middle English smyllen (v.); cognate with Old High German smīlan, Danish smile

Examples for smiles

See how pleased she is--how full of smiles and happiness she seems.

“I have a lot of memories as a teenager that helped,” she smiles.

Lady Coryston's smiles were scarcely less formidable than her frowns.

But she just turns and twists and smiles and shimmers with every color.

She could distribute, and did distribute pretty looks and smiles to every one among them.

“But I knew I had to put myself through that to be a great actor,” which, in itself, will take 40 years, he smiles.

The smiles which surrounded him were of his own creation, and he participated in the happiness he had bestowed.

smiles, or lack thereof, did not bring down the Ancient Regime, of course.

“The golden age of Parisian smiles nurtured, and was nurtured by, the rise of dentistry as a vocation,” writes Jones.

For Saffy, she was a thing of smiles and of tears just as they chose to come.