Definitions for stamina

stamina stam·i·na

Spelling: [stam-uh-nuh]
IPA: /ˈstæm ə nə/

Stamina 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 222 anagrams from letters in stamina (aaimnst).

Definitions for stamina

noun

  1. strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
  2. a plural of stamen.
  3. the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.

Origin of stamina

1535-45; Latin, plural of stāmen thread (see stamen); i.e., the life-threads spun by the Fates

Examples for stamina

Came a night at last when stamina and hope and grit won the long, long fight.

The amount of strength, flexibility, stamina, everything it takes to be a gymnast is insane.

Every man of them was marked for courage and stamina and wild daring.

Prepare the stamina from this piece of wax by snipping the proper number.

They just weren't used to it; they wouldn't have the stamina to take it.

I stood him for two years altogether, and then I guess my stamina broke.

He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.

War,” wrote Clausewitz, “is an extreme trial of strength and stamina.

Even as we cheer for her stamina, we shrink from her rapacity.

He was smart and tough in the way of the hard worker, the long-distance runner, the gambler who wins on stamina.

Word Value for stamina
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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