Definitions for tenets

tenets ten·et

Spelling: [ten-it; British also tee-nit]
IPA: /ˈtɛn ɪt; British also ˈti nɪt/

Tenets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in tenets (eenstt).

Definitions for tenets

noun

  1. any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.

Origin of tenets

1590-1600; Latin: he holds

Examples for tenets

Meanwhile, [CIA Director George] tenet and I sat together in my small office.

By late Jan. 2003, tenet had signed the first formal guidelines for interrogation and confinement.

The only problem was that tenet made those remarks two weeks before the actual polygraph test.

This tenet of his religion he infused in some measure into all his novels.

You will be surprised to know that many an Islamic tenet is entirely in accord with it.

He was as unconscious, almost, as he had been back there in tenet's cabin after his fall.

Was it something in a cast of character or a tenet of a creed, or was it what any one could emulate?

The tenet of predestination was the keystone of his religion.

When tenet was asked whether it was appropriate to describe Ciralsky that way, tenet answered, “No.”

Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.

Word Value for tenets
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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