ceil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
/siːl/
Definition of ceil
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
“It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.”
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verb
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(transitive)To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
“It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.”
- To set a higher bound.
noun
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(poetic)A ceiling.
“[…] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]”
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of ceiling.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).
Words you can make from ceil
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