Definitions for Wampum

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Wampum wam·pum

Spelling: [wom-puh m, wawm-]

IPA: /ˈwɒm pəm, ˈwɔm-/

Wampum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Wampum (ammpuw).

Definitions for Wampum

noun

1. Also called peag, seawan, sewan. cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, especially such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or dark-purple varieties.
2. Informal. money.

Origin of Wampum

First recorded in 1630-40; short for wampumpeag

Examples for Wampum

The young man saw that it was of the same stuff as the wampum which he had in his bosom.

If you love your women and children, receive the belt of wampum I present you.

But wampum strings and belts subserved other equally important uses.

The wampum was a pledge of their sincerity, and white an emblem of purity and of faith.

wampum was used for ornament and in treaty-making, but not as currency.

A solemn smoking of pipes, passing of wampum, feasts and dances.

They give my Injun, pipe, wampum, and powder horn with carving on it for you.'

This was beautifully decorated with belts of wampum from the waist upward.

wampum played an important part in religious as well as civil ceremonies.

America with lakes of lucre, waves of wampum, a Superstorm Sandy of simoleons, a Hurricane Katrina of cash.