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creese

creese is the archaic form of kris.

Meaning of kris

Noun

kris (plural krises or krisses)

  1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
    • Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292

See all 4 meanings of kris

Proper noun capitalized: Creese

Creese (plural Creeses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of creese

Noun
pluralcreeses
Verb
third-person singular presentcreeses
present participlecreesing
past participlecreesed
pastcreesed
Proper noun
pluralCreeses

Origin of creese

Probably a variant of Creasy.

Questions about creese

What does creese mean?
Creese means a surname.
What is creese the archaic form of?
Creese is the archaic form of kris.
What part of speech is creese?
Creese is a proper noun.

Words near creese in the dictionary

  1. creepypasta
  2. creepypastas
  3. Creer
  4. Creers
  5. Crees
  6. creese
  7. creesed
  8. creeses
  9. creesh
  10. creeshed
  11. creeshes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: creese (page history and authors); Creese (page history and authors); kris (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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