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Word entry · 4 letters

bead

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"Necklace bit"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈbiːd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abdeStarts with BEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. string together like beads

Word origin

From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.

Used in a sentence

  • That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.
  • Holonym: prayer beads
  • Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

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