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se-tenant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables
se--tenant
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of postage stamps with differing values, colours, etc, but printed on the same sheet.

Etymology

From French se tenant (“holding each other”), present participle of se tenir (“to hold each other”).

Inflected Forms

se-tenants (plural)

Questions

What does se-tenant mean?
A set of postage stamps with differing values, colours, etc, but printed on the same sheet.
Where does se-tenant come from?
From French se tenant (“holding each other”), present participle of se tenir (“to hold each other”).

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