winter-bound
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done."
- "The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice."
- "But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound."
- "They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company."
Inflected Forms
more winter-bound (comparative)
most winter-bound (superlative)