widdershins
Meaning of widdershins
- in a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise.
she danced widdershins around him
early 16th century: from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider ‘against’ + sin ‘direction’; the second element was associated with Scots sin ‘sun’.
Information about widdershins
- It is an adverb.
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Hyphenation of widdershins
wid-der-shins
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- widdershins is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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