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Yes. The word sermon is a Scrabble US word. The word sermon is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word sermon is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

MORNES,SERMON,

5-letter words (20 found)

ENORM,MESON,MOERS,MONER,MORES,MORNE,MORNS,MORSE,NOMES,NORMS,NOSER,OMENS,OMERS,ONERS,RENOS,RONES,SENOR,SERON,SMORE,SNORE,

4-letter words (34 found)

EMOS,EONS,ERNS,EROS,MENO,MOER,MOES,MONS,MORE,MORN,MORS,MOSE,NOES,NOME,NOMS,NORM,NOSE,OMEN,OMER,ONER,ONES,ORES,REMS,RENO,RENS,REOS,ROES,ROMS,RONE,ROSE,SOME,SONE,SORE,SORN,

3-letter words (33 found)

EMO,EMS,ENS,EON,ERM,ERN,ERS,MEN,MES,MOE,MON,MOR,MOS,NOM,NOR,NOS,OES,OMS,ONE,ONS,ORE,ORS,OSE,REM,REN,REO,RES,ROE,ROM,SEN,SER,SOM,SON,

2-letter words (15 found)

EM,EN,ER,ES,ME,MO,NE,NO,OE,OM,ON,OR,OS,RE,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 105 words from sermon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sermon

sermon

Etymology 1

From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.

Alternative forms

  • sarmon (dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː.mən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɝ.mən/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

Noun

sermon (plural sermons)

  1. Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
  2. A lengthy speech of reproval.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

Verb

sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)

  2. (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
    • January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh
      To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
  3. (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
Derived terms

References

  • “sermon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Related terms

Anagrams

  • Menors, Merson, merons, moners, mornes, somner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sermon, from Latin sermōnem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/

Noun

sermon m (plural sermons)

  1. sermon (religious speech)
  2. sermon (lengthy reproval)

Further reading

  • “sermon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • mornes, normes

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman sermun.

Noun

sermon

  1. Alternative form of sermoun

Etymology 2

From Old French sermoner.

Verb

sermon

  1. Alternative form of sermonen

Old French

Alternative forms

  • sermoun (Anglo-Norman)
  • sermun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

Noun

sermon oblique singular, m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)

  1. sermon (religious)

Descendants

  • Anglo-Norman: sermun
    • → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
      • English: sermon, sarmon
      • Scots: sermon
  • Bourguignon: sarmon
  • French: sermon
  • Walloon: siermon

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sermon, supplement)
  • sermun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sermón, from Latin sermōnem.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /seɾˈmon/ [sɛɾˈmon], /ˈseɾmon/ [ˈsɛɾ.mon]
  • Rhymes: -on, -eɾmon
  • Syllabification: ser‧mon

Noun

sermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. sermon (especially by a priest)
  2. moral lecture
    Synonyms: aral, pangaral, pangangaral
  3. (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “sermon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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