Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DISPORT
DISPORT
Definitions of DISPORT
- (ambitransitive, reflexive, dated) To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol.
- (countable, archaic) Anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game, a pastime, a sport.
- (uncountable, archaic) Amusement, entertainment, recreation, relaxation.
- (countable, obsolete) The way one carries oneself; bearing, carriage, deportment.
- (countable, obsolete) Bearing, elevation, orientation.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Fun, gaiety, joy, merriment, mirth.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DISPORT in a Sentence
- This was seldom hard, since, as Leonard delighted in showing us, crime—more than anything, even politics—allows men of all ages to disport themselves across the full range of human ineptitude.
- The lane keeps to Arthur Paterson's description in 1905:
Trees meet overhead, copsewood surrounds it, and later, it is hedged by high sandy banks thickly overgrown with plant and scrub; squirrels and rabbits, and all other small woodland creatures, disport themselves over it.
- Chepman having found the necessary capital, and Myllar having obtained the type from France, probably from Rouen, they set up their press in a house at the foot of Blackfriars Wynd, in the Southgait, now the Cowgate, of Edinburgh, and on 4 April 1508 issued the first book known to have been printed in Scotland, The Maying or Disport of Chaucer, better known as The Complaint of the Black Knight, and written not by Chaucer but by Lydgate.
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