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‘JAMES’ is a 5 letter
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starting with J and ending with S

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JAMES is an official word in Scrabble with 14 points.

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JAMES

James is a noun.

WHAT DOES JAMES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of James in the English dictionary

The first definition of James in the dictionary is Clive. born 1939, Australian journalist, critic and broadcaster. His books include the memoirs Unreliable Memoirs and North Face of Soho and the novel Brilliant Creatures. Other definition of James is Henry 1843–1916, British novelist, short-story writer, and critic, born in the US Among his novels are Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. James is also Jesse. 1847–82, US outlaw.

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The term «James» is very widely used and occupies the 1.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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• Defenition of the word james

  • 1843-1916
  • a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
  • disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of The Epistle of James in the New Testament
  • 1842-1910
  • a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
  • a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
  • (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
  • writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
  • United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
  • United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
  • the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
  • the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
  • a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

Synonyms for the word james

• • Henry James
  • James
  • James River
  • Saint James
  • Saint James the Apostle
  • St James
  • William James

Meronymys for the word james

• • Coyote State
  • Mount Rushmore State
  • ND
  • New Testament
  • North Dakota
  • Old Dominion
  • Old Dominion State
  • Peace Garden State
  • SD
  • South Dakota
  • VA
  • Virginia

Hypernyms for the word james

• • Apostle
  • author
  • book
  • criminal
  • crook
  • felon
  • malefactor
  • outlaw
  • philosopher
  • psychologist
  • river
  • saint
  • writer

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Sentences starting with james

• James Grayden’s directions were peremptory, but it was a case for the higher law. [6]
• James is gone to you but quarter of an hour since with a message, sir. [9]
• James Redpath recognised the justice of this assumption, and furnished the following instance in support of it. [5]
• James Sawyer of Tennessee. [5]
• James was a retail rascal; Murel, wholesale. [5]
• James Hanbury, you remember, had him appointed consul at Nice. [9]
• James Guthrie, one or both, in their discretion see fit to give you the passes, this is my authority to them for doing so. [7]
• James Jackson not only educated a whole generation by his lessons of wisdom, but bequeathed some of the most valuable results of his experience to those who came after him, in a series of letters singularly pleasant and kindly as well as instructive. [3]
• James H. Lane, of Kansas, a brigadier-general of United States volunteers in anticipation of the act of Congress, since passed, for raising such volunteers; and I have no further knowledge upon the subject, except as derived from the papers herewith enclosed. [7]
• James Freeman Clarke.—Republication of «Sartor Resartus. [6]

Sentences ending with james

• And if you were to ask me to name one of the greatest religious teachers of our age, I should answer, William James. [9]
• Will you not try to save my father, James? [11]
• P. S. General Pope thinks if you fall back it would be much better towards York River than towards the James. [7]
• I «caught it» once more for personating that drunken Col. James. [5]
• And there, stretched on the ground behind a stump, within twenty feet of the walls, was James. [9]
• But the luxury of the table and good cooking were well understood in the time of Elizabeth and James. [4]
• It was a narrow chance that Hudson missed them all, and one may imagine that the fate of the Virginia colony and of the New York settlement would have been different if the explorer of the Hudson had gone up the James. [4]
• I found with me at the table my own countrymen and his, Mr. Smalley and Mr. Henry James. [6]
• When I was making these appointments, Mr. Sumner came to me and asked me to appoint Mr. Motley as minister to the court of St. James. [6]
• McClellan’s main force is between the Chickahominy and the James. [7]

Short sentences using james

• Mr. James B. Thayer. [6]
• Mr. James was not there. [9]
• James G. Willard, Editor. [9]
• Mr. James A. Dupee. [6]
• Mr. James H. Beal. [6]
• Thomson, James, descriptions, 338. [6]
• Aleck James Hopkins. [5]

Sentences containing james two or more times

• Resolved, That N. W. Edwards, A. G. Henry, James H. Matheny, John C. Doremus, and James C. Conkling be appointed a Whig Central State Committee, with authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee. [7]
• He had entered the court-room as James Gathorne Kerry, and he was leaving it as Shiel Crozier; and somehow James Gathorne Kerry had always been to himself a different man from Shiel Crozier, with different views, different feelings, if not different characteristics. [11]
• John M. Robinson, of Columbia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Missouri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Missouri, may be allowed to return to their respective homes. [7]
• I understand the Kentucky arrests were not made by special direction from here, and I am willing if you are that any of the parties may be released when James Guthrie and James Speed think they should be. [7]
• He is not James Gathorne Kerry now; he is James Shiel Gathorne Crozier, and—oh, you understand: he’s back again where he was before—before he left her. [11]

More example sentences with the word james in them

• Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip’s freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
• The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
• The patent under which this colonization was undertaken was obtained from King James by the solicitation of Richard Hakluyt and others. [4]
• Thayer, James B.: Western Journey with Emerson, 249, 263, 265-271, 359; _ground swell_, 364. [6]
• Among this number were Sir James and Lady Kay Shuttleworth. [14]
• In 1852 there was published a Memoir of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, in which Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing each took a part. [6]
• At last I was lucky enough to light on a sturdy wagon, drawn by a pair of serviceable bays, and driven by James Grayden, with whom I was destined to have a somewhat continued acquaintance. [6]
• Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. [9]
• He knew he was at the mouth of the James River, «where our Englishmen are,» as he says. [4]
• But it was very difficult, Mr. Fay told me, to procure any kind of conveyance to Hagerstown; and, on the other hand, I had James Grayden and his wagon to carry me back to Frederick. [6]
• This is the Valiant Soldier, by James Groves—Jem Groves—honest Jem Groves, as is a man of unblemished moral character, and has a good dry skittle-ground. [12]
• So to James towne with 12 guides Powhatan sent him. [4]
• Now in James Towne they were all in combustion, the strongest preparing once more to run away with the Pinnace; which with the hazard of his life, with Sakre falcon and musketshot, Smith forced now the third time to stay or sinke. [4]
• That night, as Tom and Cowan and McCann and James Ray lay around their fire, taking a well-earned rest, a man broke excitedly into the light with a kettle-shaped object balanced on his head, which he set down in front of us. [9]
• If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once. [7]
• This Colonel Clark to whom Tom delivered Mr. Robertson’s letter was perchance the youngest man in the company that had rescued us, saving only a slim lad of seventeen whom I noticed and envied, and whose name was James Ray. [9]
• Strain every nerve to open communication with him by James River, or any other way you can. [7]
• In the mean time James was getting impatient to be on his return, according to the direction of his employers. [6]
• I have often thought of the advance in comity and true charity shown in the title of my late honored friend James Freeman Clarke’s book, «The Ten Great Religions. [6]
• It was as though, while he was living under an assumed name, the real James Shiel Gathorne Crozier did not exist, or was in the far background of the doings and sayings of J. G. Kerry. [11]
• When she reached this point it was always to James Wing that she clung—the financier, at least, had been impartial. [9]
• But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything. [5]
• The first of these accounts is taken from «The True Relation,» written by Captain John Smith, composed in Virginia, the earliest published work relating to the James River Colony. [4]
• So you see there never was a bad James in the Sunday-school books that had such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life. [5]
• On Sunday morning, the twenty-first, having engaged James Grayden and his team, I set out with the Chaplain and the Philanthropist for Keedysville. [6]
• It must be the President, Susan Posey,—President James Buchanan. [6]
• He may accept the pragmatism of James, the idealism of Royce, or even what is called neo realism. [9]
• In obedience to the orders to explore for the South Sea, on the 22d of May, Newport, Percy, Smith, Archer, and twenty others were sent in the shallop to explore the Powhatan, or James River. [4]
• His expedition reached the James in August. [4]
• The adventurers on the James hoped they could follow the stream to highlands that looked off upon the South Sea, a new route to India and the Spice Islands. [4]
• On one of the islets below the Falls, Captain Newport set up a cross with the inscription «Jacobus, Rex, 1607,» and his own name beneath, and James was proclaimed King with a great shout. [4]
• It occurred at the home of Mrs. James T. Field. [5]
• In speaking of the exploration of the James River as far as the Falls by Newport, Smith, and Percy, we have followed the statements of Percy and the writer of Newport’s discovery that they saw the great Powhatan. [4]
• In answer to the dozen questions I showered upon her, she replied that Dorothy’s malady was in no wise dangerous, so Dr. James had said, and undoubtedly arose out of the excitement of a London season. [9]
• Although London at the accession of James I. [4]
• After lingering till the 29th, without any suggestion of ascending the James, he sailed northward and made the lucky stroke of river exploration which immortalized him. [4]
• Professor James B. Thayer’s little book, «A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson,» is a very entertaining account of the same trip concerning which Mr. Forbes wrote the letter just given. [6]
• Is it true that he gave money to help build the pretty little church of St. James the Less, and that he is, one of the vestrymen? [5]
• James, you may take the mare home. [9]
• Colonel Carvel was sure to be there, and Mr. Catherwood and Mr. Russell and Mr. James, and Mr. Worington the lawyer. [9]
• In the biographical sketch with which this volume opens, and more extendedly elsewhere, has been told the story of the trouble growing out of the Enterprise letters, and of Mark Twain’s sojourn with James Gillis in the Tuolumne Hills. [5]
• Sir James Kay Shuttleworth’s state of health is the cause-a cause, I fear, not likely to be soon removed. [14]
• Sir James Kay Shuttleworth is residing near Windermere, at a house called the ‘Briery,’ and it was there I was staying for a little time this August. [14]
• But the distinct, separable, independent individualities, taking up conscious life one after the other, are brought out by Mr. James and the authorities to which he refers as I have not elsewhere seen them developed. [6]
• Beautiful are those sentences out of James Martineau’s sermons; some of them gems most pure and genuine; ideas deeply conceived, finely expressed. [14]
• Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it. [5]
• The private medical school which I had joined was one established by Dr. James Jackson, Dr. Walter Channing, Dr. John Ware, Dr. Winslow Lewis, and Dr. George W. Otis. [6]
• Dr. James Jackson says that relief of epilepsy is not to be attained by any medicine with which he is acquainted, but by diet. [6]
• I had sent round at once to James Devlin (but asked him not to come till morning), and also to Mrs. Falchion; but I begged her not to come at all. [11]
• The charter was revoked in 1624 after many violent scenes, and King James was glad to be rid of what he called «a seminary for a seditious parliament. [4]
• It was James Redbrook, the member from Mercer. [9]
• Clemens must have received a letter from Gillis referring to some particular occasion, but it has disappeared; the reply, however, always remained one of James Gillis’s treasured possessions. [5]
• It was a portrait of Dr. James Barry, a military surgeon who came out to the Cape fifty years ago with his regiment. [5]
• I only went out once to dinner; and once was present at an evening party; and the only visits I have paid have been to Sir James Kay Shuttleworth’s and my publisher’s. [14]
• In accordance with our determination, as expressed last week, we present to the reader the articles which were published in hand-bill form, in reference to the case of the heirs of Joseph Anderson vs. James Adams. [7]
• I believe common opinion confirms Sir James Clark’s observation to this effect. [3]
• Hoped that the opening of James River and putting Wool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to Richmond, or to you, had effected something in that direction. [7]
• He wrote at once to the publisher James T. Fields, urging the production of these articles in book form. [4]
• Captain Newport’s narration of the exploration of the James is interesting, being the first account we have of this historic river. [4]
• On the 15th of October he spoke at a dinner given in New York in honor of James Anthony Froude, the historian, and in the course of this same month he set out on his third visit to Europe, accompanied by his daughter Ellen. [6]
• On the 9th of November he set out in the barge to explore the Chickahominy, which is described as emptying into the James at Paspahegh, eight miles above the fort. [4]
• Until the 13th of May they were slowly exploring the River Powhatan, now the James, seeking a place for the settlement. [4]
• He’s the son of James Wing, the financier. [9]
• Towards the close of his residence in Spain, Irving received unexpectedly the appointment of Secretary of Legation to the Court of St. James, at which Louis McLane was American Minister; and after some hesitation, and upon the urgency of his friends, he accepted it. [4]
• All the years of her marriage, ever since she had first heard his name, the stature of James Wing had been insensibly growing, and the vastness of his empire gradually disclosed. [9]
• The great masters of finance were the classically trained orators William Pitt and Charles James Fox. [4]
• The exalted character of Berkeley is thus drawn by Sir James Mackintosh: Ancient learning, exact science, polished society, modern literature, and the fine arts, contributed to adorn and enrich the mind of this accomplished man. [6]
• She was conscious of a shadow somewhere, and behind it all was the name of David’s father, James Fetherdon. [11]
• If you are not tolerably confident you can keep the James River open, you had better remove as soon as possible. [7]
• But you did not remind him, as you might have, that your ancestors fought for the King at Marston Moor, and that your grandfather was once an intimate of Charles James Fox. [9]
• All she did not like she could empty into the mill of the destroying gods: just as General Grant poured hundreds of thousands of men into the valley of the James, not thinking of lives but victory, not of blood but triumph. [11]
• Early in the new year (1855), Mr. and Mrs. Nicholls went to visit Sir James Kay Shuttleworth at Gawthorpe. [14]
• Unable to contain myself more, I flung my drum overboard and went after it, and amid shouts and laughter I was towed across by James Ray. [9]
• I assign all my right, title and interest to James Adams which is in consideration of a debt I owe said Adams. [7]
• I consulted James Munroe & Co. on the subject. [6]
• Not long ago Mr. James Anthony Froude published an essay on Progress, in which he examined some of the evidences upon which we rely to prove that we live in an «era of progress. [4]
• General McClellan has moved his whole force on the line of the James River, and is supported there by our gunboats; but he must be largely strengthened before advancing, and hence the call on you, which I am glad you answered so promptly. [7]
• I remember the men,—scarcely what they said: Evan Shelby’s words, like heavy blows on an anvil; Isaac Shelby’s, none the less forceful; James Robertson compelling his listeners by some strange power. [9]
• James S. Rollins, member of Congress from one of the Missouri districts, wishes that, upon his personal responsibility, Rev. [7]
• General Sherman tells me he is well acquainted with James Yeatman, and that he thinks him almost the best man in the country for anything he will undertake. [7]
• Urging on the mare, I cantered across the fields, and the first person I met was James Ray. [9]
• I have seen many noted British and French and American practitioners, but I never saw the man so altogether admirable at the bedside of the sick as Dr. James Jackson. [3]
• A wise old man, the late Dr. James Walker, president of Harvard University, said that the great privilege of old age was the getting rid of responsibilities. [6]
• James Freeman, Charles Lowell, and William Ellery Channing were preaching in Boston. [6]
• Jim Gillis, a lovable, picturesque character (the Truthful James of Bret Harte), owned mining claims. [5]
• Clarke, James Freeman: letters, 77-80, 128-131; transcendentalism, 149; The Dial, 159; Fuller Memoir, 209; Emerson’s funeral, 351, 353-355. [6]
• In the next letter we meet James J. Corbett—«Gentleman Jim,» as he was sometimes called—the champion pugilist of that day. [5]
• Away to my left again, but abreast of me, was the bleak, bare old Academy building; and in front of me stood unchanged the shallow oblong white house where I lived a year in the days of James Monroe and of John Quincy Adams. [6]
• Col. James B. Knox, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, offers his resignation under circumstances inducing me to wish to accept it. [7]
• And, do you know» (looking about him coolly), «it’s quite English, ‘pon my honor, quite English—St. James and that sort of thing. [4]
• The letters-patent of King James, dated April 10, 1606, licensed the planting of two colonies in the territories of America commonly called Virginia. [4]
• The wrath of King James was probably never cooled against tobacco, but the expression of it was somewhat tempered when he perceived what a source of revenue it became. [4]
• Henry James had just been there for a week and it was hoped that Howells would soon follow. [5]
• If yourself and James Short were appointed from your county, all would be safe; but whether Jim’s woman affair a year ago might not be in the way of his appointment is a question. [7]
• Well, when Mrs. James Shiel Gathorne Crozier said—oh, so sweetly and kindly—‘You are Miss Tynan? [11]
• He returned to James River September 7th. [4]
• It was young James Ray whom Colonel Clark singled to creep with our message to the gates. [9]
• After this Sir James Paget called, and took me to a small and early dinner-party; and A—- went with my secretary, the young lady of whom I have spoken, to see «Human Nature,» at Drury Lane Theatre. [6]
• Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing, and many others gradually drew together, and from time to time spent an afternoon at each other’s houses in a serious conversation. [6]
• After the service, James Devlin—with Ruth—came to Roscoe and myself, and asked us to lunch at his house. [11]

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