Debate is valid Scrabble Word

Is debate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is debate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for DEBATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to deliberate
argue about (a subject), especially in a formal manner
To engage in combat for; to strive for.
To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
Subject of discussion.
argue with one another

think about carefully; weigh
discuss the pros and cons of an issue
have an argument about something
discuss formally
consider a possible course of action in one's mind before reaching a decision

NOUN:

a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually ends with a vote
an argument about a particular subject, especially one in which many people are involved
a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)
discussion

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to argue about

Words related to DEBATE

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Words that contain DEBATE

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How to use DEBATE in a sentence

He was experienced, versatile, liberal, popular, and ready in debate.
I have not been able to avoid a short debate with Mr.
Two months more of such ardent debate and such popular enlightenment as were then going forward would have resulted in his defeat.
Somewhere near Camberwell Green, just as he had resumed the debate about his purchases, a middle-aged woman met him with friendly greeting.
Turn away at once and forever from all your unbecoming debates about your Maker and Preserver and turn to what is beyond all debate, your own experience of yourselves.
The debate began on February 6, and for some time was altogether one-sided, with one speaker after another opposing the creation of a navy.
After long debate, this point was settled by having a large round table made, to which there could be no head and no foot.
After an interval of heated debate Silas returned and with an air of scepticism demanded twenty-five dollars.
But whether I should write this apology, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate.
But it should not be forgotten that the wisdom of universal male education was hotly in debate.

This otherwise fruitless debate had the effect of making the nature and bearings of the controversy clear to both sides.
The member who would succeed in the House of Commons must respect the usages of the House, and show himself loyal to its laws of debate.
What was to be done with farm and girls? To the villagers this question was of serious debate.
When the mutiny bill was sent up to the house of lords, a long debate arose upon the number of troops voted for the ensuing year.
Nevertheless, the motion was opposed, and a warm debate ensued.
The debate on this bill in the house of lords was equally warm as that in the commons.
Fox, however, was resolute, and the debate continued.
Peel having stated that he did not wish to divide the house on the first reading, or to have a long debate without a division.
On the appointed day for the second reading of the English reform bill an animated debate took place.
Other members who took part in the debate for the motion were Lords Howick and John Russell, and Messrs.
After a debate of two nights, the amendment was rejected by an overwhelming majority.
Foot, a representative from Connecticut, in an incidental reference to it in debate on another subject, a few weeks after the final settlement of the Missouri case.
And that is what happened in the great debate we have referred to.
The debate was remarkable for the brevity of some of the speeches.
In some of its phases slavery was the all-absorbing subject of debate throughout the entire country.
She did not debate this question, but again turned, made her way to Mrs.
The sermons created a moral atmosphere, in which men judged the questions in debate.
He was rather disposed to make it matter of ridicule, that I had introduced into the debate the name of one Nathan Dane, of whom he assures us he had never before heard.
But come, I have left Lady Juliana and Adelaide in grand debate as to their dresses.
For that horn did never good, but caused strife and debate, and always in her days she had been an enemy to all true lovers.
The debate has been long, and as much so on my part, at least, as on the part of those who have spoken before me.
This debate, for the present topic has sometimes warmed into one, is in truth ill adapted for controversy.

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