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Definition: Bel Esprit |
Bel EspritNoun1. A witty or clever person with a fine mind. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bel Esprit (French). A vivacious wit; a man or woman of quick and lively parts, ready at repartee. (Plural, beaux esprits. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Humorist | Noun: humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark; bon diable; practical joker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bel Esprit |
| Specialty definitions using "bel esprit": Beaux Esprits. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bel esprit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | esprili kimse (card, wisecracker), şakacı (banterer, buffoon, facetious, funster, humorist, humoristic, jester, jesting, jocose, jocular, joker, playful, puckish, quizzical, wag, waggish, wisecracker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-l-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: epistler, peltries, perlites, reptiles. | |
-2 letters: beliers, belters, blister, bristle, epistle, leister, pelites, pelters, perlite, pestier, petrels, replies, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, retiles, riblets, spelter, spieler, sterile, trebles, triples. | |
-3 letters: belier, belies, belter, berets, bestir, betels, betise, birles, bister, bistre, biters, bleeps, blites, elites, esprit, lepers, libers, lisper, listee, lister, liters, litres, pelite, pelter. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-l-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: putrescible. | |
+3 letters: boilerplates, disreputable, preestablish, presbyterial, tribespeople. | |
+4 letters: alphabetizers, operabilities, presbyterials. | |
+5 letters: disrespectable, drapeabilities, permeabilities, preestablished, preestablishes, pregnabilities, presbyterially, presentability, preservability, profitableness, repressibility, reputabilities, respectability, separabilities, unpredictables. | |
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