Definition of reeds

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • reeds is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
  • reeds is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
  • reeds is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 6

Definition of reeds


  • United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. john reed
  • a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it (noun)

    Examples

    1. the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece

    Synonyms

    1. vibrating reed
  • United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. walter reed
  • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. beating-reed instrument
    2. reed instrument
  • tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites (noun)

See definition of reeds in Merriam Webster