Definitions for tortoise

tortoise tor·toise

Spelling: [tawr-tuh s]
IPA: /ˈtɔr təs/

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

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in tortoise (eioorstt).

Definitions for tortoise

noun

  1. a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
  2. a very slow person or thing.
  3. testudo (def 1).

Origin of tortoise

1350-1400; variant of earlier (15th-century) tortuse, tortose, tortuce, Middle English tortuca Medieval Latin tortūca, for Late Latin tartarūcha (feminine adj.) of Tartarus (Greek tartaroûcha

Examples for tortoise

The pot-boy's movements resembled those of a tortoise in celerity.

She is married with two children, two dogs, a cat and a tortoise.

The tortoise Hollande, early on in his bid to become the Socialist nominee, had only two reporters on his beat.

Nolens Volens tries it by a process like "Achilles and the tortoise."

With these words he took his tortoise on his back and went off.

tortoise disqualified for technical reasons, first place awarded to Sputnik hare.

The tortoise in the right road will beat a racer in the wrong.

I had, too, and I own it was absurd, a tortoise named Chrysagre.

Gone were the figs and almonds, the indigo, ivory, tortoise shells.

Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Pattinson may be the tortoise to Lautner's hare.

Word Value for tortoise
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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