Definitions for Whistler

• Definition
• Anagrams (324)

Whistler whis·tler

Spelling: [hwis-ler, wis-]

IPA: /ˈʰwɪs lər, ˈwɪs-/

Whistler is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in Whistler (ehilrstw).

Definitions for Whistler

noun

1. a person or thing that whistles.
2. something that makes a sound like a whistle:
3. any of various birds whose wings whistle in flight, especially the goldeneye.
4. thickhead (def 2).
5. a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of mountainous northwestern North America, closely related to the woodchuck.
6. a horse afflicted with whistling.
7. Radio. a whistling sound heard on a radio, a type of interference caused by distant lightning.
8. James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.

Origin of Whistler

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hwistlere. See whistle, -er¹

Examples for Whistler

He gave his orders and she forged ahead to round the whistler.

whistler had not yet made his appearance in London, but the others did quite as well.

From Vancouver, whistler is a two-hour drive; bus and train transfers are available.

Celluloid is to Dean what oil paint is to Titian or etching to whistler.

Fully illustrated with 97 plates reproduced from whistler's works.

He could come off as simply out of touch, like a critic reared on whistler going after Picasso.

At the Orientale the talk could never keep very long from whistler.

Season: whistler Blackcomb is generally open from late November through late April.

Or the talk might grow reminiscent and again it was sure to return to whistler.

The whistler and Razee Reef had been blotted out by the fog.