DERVIS

Definition: DERVIS

DERVIS

Noun

1. A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: DERVIS

English words defined with "DERVIS": Dervise. (references)

Non-English Usage: "DERVIS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (dervish).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Dervis i smrt (1974)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cyprus	He defeated the incumbent "Prime Minister," Dr. Dervis Eroglu. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Derivations
	Words beginning with "DERVIS": dervish, dervishes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: divers, drives.
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: diver, dives, dries, drive, resid, rides, rived, rives, sired, siver, viers, vires, vised.
	-2 letters: devs, dies, dire, dive, ides, ired, ires, reds, reis, revs, ride, rids, rise, rive, side, sire, vide, vied, vier, vies, vise.
	-3 letters: dev, die, dis, eds, ers, ids, ire, red, rei, res, rev, rid, sei, ser, sir, sri, vie.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: adviser, derives, dervish, deviser, devisor, devoirs, diverse, diverts, drivels, drivers, revised, scrived, shrived, strived, verbids, verdins, visored, voiders.
	+2 letters: advisers, avodires, avoiders, codrives, delivers, deprives, derisive, derivers, desilver, devisers, devisors, discover, disprove, disserve, dissever, diverges, dividers, diviners, divorces, invaders, misdrive, misdrove, overbids, overside, prevised, provides, ravished, redrives, scrieved, serviced, shivered, shrieved, silvered, skydiver, slivered, survived, verdicts.
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