Definitions for Tyre

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Tyre tyre

Spelling: [tahyuh r]

IPA: /taɪər/

Tyre is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Tyre (erty).

Definitions for Tyre

noun

1. an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.
2. a ring or band of rubber, either solid or hollow and inflated, or of metal, placed over the rim of a wheel to provide traction, resistance to wear, or other desirable properties.
3. a metal band attached to the outside of the felloes and forming the tread of a wagon wheel.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with tires.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. tire2 .

Origin of Tyre

First recorded in 1475-85; special use of tire³

Examples for Tyre

Last year I met a bomb victim, Ali Muorad, a good-natured twentysomething native of tyre in southern Lebanon.

He looked at his watch; it was two o'clock; the next station was tyre.

Why speak of the war gathering from tyre, and thy brother's menaces?

Then there were a few footmarks, and the tyre reappeared once more.

The usual names of Rome, tyre, and Carthage, were not their true and secret names.

People came all the way from Sicyonia and tyre to gape at it.

tyre and Sidon, and Venice are no longer commercial centres.

They competed with and finally crushed their rivals in tyre, Corinth and Carthage.

The chief gods of Sidon and tyre have nothing luxurious or effeminate about them.

By all means let him take up the Burden of tyre, so long as he can take it lightly.