Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bespeared

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-speared
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Equipped or furnished with a spear.

Example Sentences

"The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart."
"My definition of war will stand on my definition of militarism, and my definition of militarism goes back thru the Roman milites, helmeted and bespeared, massed in legions or formed in testudines, back to the slopes of Kabulstan and the plains of the Jumna and the Ganges, […]"

Etymology

From be- + speared.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Inflected Forms

more bespeared (comparative) most bespeared (superlative)

Questions

What does bespeared mean?: Equipped or furnished with a spear.
Where does bespeared come from?: From be- + speared.

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