davenport
/ˈdævɪnˌpɔɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Holonym: furniture"
- "He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head."
- "Beezus felt a little better. She curled up on the davenport again with 202 Things to Do on a Rainy Afternoon and read about making Christmas tree ornaments out of cellophane straws, until she heard her aunt's car turn into the driveway."
- "Then she went into the house, and, sitting down at the davenport in the dining-room, got out a sheet of her best notepaper, and wrote a note to Pamela Dysart in her strong, commercially clear hand."
- "He crosses to the davenport to get the policies from his briefcase,"
Etymology
* As an English surname, from Middle English Devennport, named after the River Dane + port. The first element is from Welsh dafn (“trickle, drop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, haze”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó Donndubhartaigh (“descendant of Donndubhartach”), which is from donn (“brown”) + dubh (“black”) + artach (“nobleman”); see airigh.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdævɪnˌpɔɹt/
- British English: /ˈdævənpɔːt/