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Yes. The word vein is a Scrabble US word. The word vein is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

NEVI,VEIN,VINE,

3-letter words (3 found)

NIE,VIE,VIN,

2-letter words (3 found)

EN,IN,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from vein according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vein

vein

English

Alternative forms

  • wayn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: vān, IPA(key): /veɪn/
  • Homophones: vain, vane
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

vein (plural veins)

  2. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
    Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein
  3. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
  4. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  5. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  6. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
    1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
  7. (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  8. (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.
  9. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

Synonyms

  • (anatomy): vena

Hyponyms

  • nervure

Derived terms

Related terms

  • venation
  • venous

Translations

Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

See also

  • artery
  • blood vessel
  • capillary
  • circulatory system
  • phlebitis
  • vena cava

Further reading

  • vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “vein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vein”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “vein”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • nevi, veni-, Vien, vine, Vine

Estonian

Etymology

From German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin vīnum. Doublet of viin (“vodka”). First attested in 1869.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvei̯n/, [ˈvei̯n]
  • Rhymes: -ein
  • Hyphenation: vein

Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

  1. wine (alcoholic beverage obtained by fermentation of berry or fruit juice)
    kuiv vein ― dry wine
    magus vein ― sweet wine
    punane vein ― red wine
    valge vein ― white wine
    roosa vein ― rosé

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

References

  • vein in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “vein”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “vein”, in [SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012–
  • Jüri Viikberg (2024) “vein”, in [YSL] Ülemsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [High German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)

Finnish

Verb

vein

  1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

Noun

vein

  1. instructive plural of vee

Anagrams

  • evin, vien

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Noun

vein m (plural veins)

  1. wine

Icelandic

Etymology

Deverbal from veina (“to wail”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veiːn/
  • Rhymes: -eiːn

Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

  1. wail, lament

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

vein

  1. vain (worthless, useless)
  2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
  3. unfounded, false, misleading
  4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible
Alternative forms
  • veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine
Descendants
  • English: vain
  • Scots: vane, vain, vaine

Noun

vein (uncountable)

  1. something that is worthless or futile
  2. idleness, triviality
Alternative forms
  • weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)
Descendants
  • English: vain

References

  • “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

vein (plural veines)

  1. alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

Adverb

vein

  1. alternative form of fain

Source: wiktionary.org