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sele

/siːl/

sele noun: happiness, fortune.

Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Happiness, fortune.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
  3. Greeting, salutation.
    • I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013
    • When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245

Forms of sele

pluralseles

Origin of sele

Inherited from Middle English sel (“fortune, bliss; a unit of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.

Words formed from sele

Words that rhyme with sele

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Questions about sele

What does sele mean?
Sele means happiness, fortune.
What part of speech is sele?
Sele is a noun.
How do you pronounce sele?
Sele is pronounced /siːl/.
What is the plural of sele?
The plural of sele is seles.

Words near sele in the dictionary

  1. Seldons
  2. Seldovia
  3. selds
  4. seldseen
  5. seldshewn
  6. sele
  7. Selecao
  8. select
  9. select agent
  10. select agents
  11. select committee

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