Definitions for wormhole

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Spelling: [wurm-hohl]

IPA: /ˈwɜrmˌhoʊl/

Wormhole is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in wormhole (ehlmoorw).

Definitions for wormhole

noun

1. a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber, nuts, etc.
2. a theoretical passageway in space between a black hole and a white hole.

Origin of wormhole

First recorded in 1585-95; worm + hole

Examples for wormhole

"I think maybe that speck isn't a wormhole, after all," said Phil, subjecting the apple she still held to another scrutiny.

How about that wormhole, James, that we were worrying over before the separation of the upper table?

It offers the kind of refracted, wormhole narrative that generates comparisons to David Mitchell—deserved in this case.

I really believe he gets more pleasure out of one first-class, sixteenth-century wormhole than the original worm did.