Attorn

Definition: Attorn

Attorn

Verb

1. Acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord, of tenants.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Attorn \At*torn"\, intransitive verb. [Old French expression atorner, aturner, atourner, to direct, prepare, dispose, attorn (Compare to Old English atornen to return, adorn); [`a] (L. ad) torner to turn; compare to late Latin attornare to commit business to another, to attorn; ad tornare to turn, from Latin expression tornare to turn in lathe, to round off. See Turn, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Attorn

French

reconnaître le nouveau propriétaire (attorn to). (various references)

Pig Latin

attornay

Portuguese

arrendar (demise, farm, farm out, hire, lease, let, rent, take), alugar (hack, hire, let, rent, take). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attorn": attorned, attorney, attorneys, attorneyship, attorneyships, attorning, attornment, attornments, attorns. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratton.

-1 letter: ottar, tanto, tarot, trona.

-2 letters: nota, rant, rato, roan, rota, tarn, taro, tart, tora, torn, tort, trot.

-3 letters: ant, art, att, nor, not, oar, oat, ora, ort, ran, rat, rot, tan, tao, tar, tat, ton, tor, tot.

-4 letters: an, ar, at, na, no, on, or, ta, to.

+1 letter: arnatto, arnotto, attorns, rattons, rattoon.

+2 letters: antiriot, arnattos, arnottos, attorned, attorney, betatron, contract, contrast, natatory, nitrator, patentor, rattoons, rotating, rotation, strontia, tetragon, tolerant, traction, trapunto, turncoat.

+3 letters: annotator, anorthite, antistory, antitumor, astronaut, attorneys, attorning, attrition, betatrons, carnotite, contracts, contralto, contrasts, contrasty, detonator, fortunate, garotting, important, initiator, iteration, natatoria, natrolite, nitration, nitrators, nonartist, nontarget, northeast, orientate, outlearnt, outrating, partition, patentors, protistan, protonate, rattooned, recontact, rotations, stationer, striation, strontias, tarnation, teratogen, tetragons, throating, thyratron, titration, tractions, tradition, transport, trapuntos, triathlon, turnabout, turncoats.