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Word entry · 5 letters

agape

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"Open-mouthed"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /əˈɡeɪp/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted aaegpStarts with AEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2G3A4P5E

Definitions

  1. a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship

Word origin

From a- + gape. First known use by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).

Used in a sentence

  • […] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.
  • There I stand, agape like any country bumpkin
  • That's all well and good; one can sit, agape, reading the copious liner notes to this or any Explorer record, but it's what's inside the jacket that counts.

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