Definitions for stately

stately state·ly

Spelling: [steyt-lee]
IPA: /ˈsteɪt li/

Stately is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in stately (aelstty).

Definitions for stately

adverb

  1. in a stately manner.

adjective

  1. majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.:
  2. dignified.

Origin of stately

First recorded in 1350-1400, stately is from the Middle English word statly. See state, -ly

Examples for stately

Two hundred and forty miles west of Manhattan, in a stately red brick building perched atop a hill, the party monster waits.

Over the octagonal window, too, such draperies fell in stately lines.

Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402.

The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted.

Eudora paced down the sidewalk with a magnificent, stately gait.

Andrew Borden, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and his wife, Abby, lived in the stately abode at 92 Second Street.

Forty-five years ago Runyon referred to Harold as "my good friend, the tall and stately columnist for the New York Mirror."

Sand has pushed through the stately houses in great waves, pouring through the doorways and filling the rooms.

stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.

There is no shortage of fine hotels in Montreal and here too, the small and cool mix with the old and stately.

Word Value for stately
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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