7 Letter Words for Tonsure
snouter, tonsure, unstore
6 Letter Words for Tonsure
entour, nestor, noster, noters, ouster, outers, rontes, rouens, routes, souren, souter, stoner, stoure, strone, tenors, tensor, toners, tornus, tourne, touser, trones, trouse, tuners, unrest, unsore, unsort, ursone
5 Letter Words for Tonsure
enrut, estro, euros, nerts, norse, noser, noter, notes, notus, nurse, oners, onset, ornes, outen, outer, outre, rents, resun, rones, ronte, ronts, roset, rotes, rouen, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, runes, runts, rusot, senor, seron, serut, seton, snore, snort, snout, snurt, steno, stern, stero, stone, store, stoun, strue, sture, suent, sutor, tenor, tenso, terns, toner, tones, tonus, tores, torse, torus, touns, tourn, tours, touse, trone, trons, troue, trues, tuner, tunes, turns, turse, unset, urent, urson, usent, uster, utero
4 Letter Words for Tonsure
ento, entr, eons, erns, eros, erst, eton, euro, nest, nets, neut, noes, nore, nose, note, nots, nous, nout, nurs, nuts, oner, ones, onst, onus, ores, orts, otus, ourn, ours, oust, outr, outs, reno, rent, rest, rets, roes, rone, ront, rose, rost, rote, rots, roue, roun, rous, rout, ruen, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sent, seor, sero, sert, snot, snur, sone, sore, sorn, sort, sour, sout, sten, ster, stor, stre, stue, stun, suer, suet, sune, sunt, sure, tens, tern, toes, tone, tons, tore, torn, tors, toru, tose, toun, tour, tres, tron, true, trun, tsun, tues, tune, tuno, tuns, turn, unto, ures, urns, user, utes
3 Letter Words for Tonsure
ens, eon, eos, ern, ers, ert, esr, est, esu, neo, net, nor, nos, not, nur, nus, nut, oer, oes, one, ons, ont, ore, ors, ort, ose, our, ous, out, res, roe, ron, ros, rot, rte, rue, run, rut, sen, ser, set, son, sot, sou, str, sue, sun, sur, ten, ter, tes, toe, ton, tor, tos, tou, trs, tue, tun, tur, uns, ure, urn, urs, use, ust, ute, uts
Definitions for Tonsure
[1] the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
[2] the shaving of the head or of some part of it as a religious practice or rite, especially in preparation for entering the priesthood or a monastic order.
[3] the part of a cleric's head, usually the crown, left bare by shaving the hair.
[4] the state of being shorn.
[5] to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.
[6] to subject to tonsure.
[7] (in certain religions and monastic orders) the shaving of the head or the crown of the head only the part of the head left bare by shaving the state of being shaven thus
[8] (tr) to shave the head of
Words nearby Tonsure
tonsillo-, tonsillolith, tonsillotomy, tonsils, tonsorial, tonsure, tontine, tonus, tony, too, too bad
Origin of Tonsure
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin tōnsūra a shearing, equivalent to tōns(us ) (past participle of tondēre to shear, clip, shave) + -ūra -ure
Other words from Tonsure
un·ton·sured , adjective
Word origin for Tonsure
C14: from Latin tōnsūra a clipping, from tondēre to shave
