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muster

Best crossword clue

"Gather, as troops"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈmʌstə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted emrstuStarts with MEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

Word origin

From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.

Used in a sentence

  • She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
  • Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.
  • Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.

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