Promise is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for PROMISE in dictionary:

VERB:

to make a declaration of assurance
assure someone that one will definitely do something or that something will happen
pledge (someone, especially a woman) to marry someone else; betroth
give good grounds for expecting (a particular occurrence)
announce (something) as being expected to happen
contemplate the pleasant expectation of
say that one will definitely do or not do something
To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.
To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.
To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.

To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.
To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.
make a promise or commitment
promise to undertake or give
make a prediction about; tell in advance
give grounds for expectations

NOUN:

a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen
an indication that something is likely to occur
the quality of potential excellence
a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
undertaking to do or not to do something

ADJECTIVE:

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.
An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.
That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.
Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.

Words related to PROMISE

promised13 promiser12 promisers13 promises12 promising14

Words that contain PROMISE

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How to use PROMISE in a sentence

Fontaine in all things, and to keep my promise to my father.
Like so many of the most illustrious men, he early gave promise of rare abilities.
After supper, and while we were smoking our pipes, the boys claimed the fulfilment of my promise.
I promise ye, Master Philip, you have spoken as true as steel.
No, I promise thee, nor did he look For any but thyself, as I could guess.
Return then without fear to the presence of our great Sultan, and prove yourself a true Englishman, by keeping your promise.
Thus their answers continued to be ambiguous, making no absolute promise, but yet giving a sort of encouragement to the king to place himself in their hands.
We cannot promise that the entire machine will get into working order at once.
Susy and Prudy had the promise of sitting up till it got in, if Dotty Dimple was only willing.
All things here promise an arrangement between the Emperor and Dutch.

Oh! promise to give me Celeste, and you shall see what a glorious life I will make you share.
You will promise that he will not be hanged? CAMPBELL.
Some fled to the hills and surrendered on the promise of their lives being spared, and a few thousands found their way back to Rome.
The dawn was yet a pale promise in the East when from Independence, out through the dripping woods and clearings, rose the tumult of breaking camps.
Miss Ellsworth, the young lady who had the promise of sending the first message, was with Mr.
At length by the promise of the ever-potent temptation, liquor, I got him to leave the room.
Promise rather than give, so far as that will avail.
Them thou relievedst with thy sweet promise heavenly, Sinful though they were, and their lives negligent.
He reached the town in a dour mood of unrest, spite of the promise of wealth he carried in his pocket.
He did not want to give the promise on the spur of an impulse.
But promise me that you will not desert my poor daughter.
An accident, in this wise, caused the fulfilment of the promise much sooner than was expected.
I promise you he keeps a good watch over the prisoner.
She remembered that almost unlimited promise which the cardinal had given her if she succeeded in her enterprise.
And, this being so, I will ask you to promise me that thou wilt not leave Judea in my lifetime.
And the promise of salvation is made to such as shall endure to the end.
The new scholar was asked to promise to obey and to be diligent.

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