detur

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin detur (let it be given).

Noun[edit]

detur (plural deturs)

  1. (US, Harvard University) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for detur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

dētur

  1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French détour.

Noun[edit]

detur n (plural detururi)

  1. detour, meander

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