lin
/ˈlɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of linn.
noun
Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”).
name
A male or female given name.
name
A surname
Example Sentences
- "Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...]."
- "Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin."
- "He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had."
- "a roaring lin"
- "And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring"
- "Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin."
Etymology
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɪn/
Usage
- British usage