Definitions For Alternate

noun

  • Someone who takes the place of another person
  • Someone who is chosen to take another person's place if that person is not able to be present or to do a required job

verb

  • Do something in turns
  • Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
  • Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
  • Be an understudy or alternate for a role
  • Exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
  • To place or do (different things) so that one follows the other in a repeated series

adjective

  • Occurring by turns; first one and then the other
  • Every second one of a series
  • Serving or used in place of another

adjective

  • Of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired

Is Alternates a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Alternate is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Alternate in a Sentence

  • Alternate shades of wood formed a pattern around the window.
  • We took an alternate route because of the traffic.
  • Due to an emergency, the plane landed at an alternate airport.
  • The poem alternates fear and hope.
  • The light and dark woods alternate to form an elegant pattern around the window.
  • The town has elected five councilors and two alternates.

Synonyms for Alternate

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