Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 11 letters

lucubration

Limited data

No curated clues yet.

Use pattern search to check whether the word fits.

11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abcilnortuuStarts with LEnds with N0 clues
1L2U3C4U5B6R7A8T9I10O11N

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

L__________

Definitions

  1. laborious cogitation

Word origin

From the Latin lūcubrātiō (“nighttime study”), from lūcubrō (“work by artificial light”), from lūx (“light”). Compare luculent.

Used in a sentence

  • The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
  • There is General Blair. True, his lucubrations on negro supremacy are ludicrous enough, but it will not do to speak lightly of his ability. There is power in his organization.
  • 'You have been good enough to allude to me in one of your recent lucubrations,' he said, shaking the paper at me.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer0 curated clues

No curated clues for lucubration yet.

Related words