clerisy
Plural: clerisies
Noun
- The intellectual or learned class; the educated elite.
- an educated and intellectual elite
- An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
- The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
Examples
- Only those of the CLERISY would know to play such an obscure but high-scoring word.
Origin / Etymology
Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from Late Latin clēricus.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
clerisy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclerisy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clerisy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
clerisy: valid Words With Friends Word