ELOPE
What does "ELOPE" mean?
To run away secretly in order to get married, usually without family approval.
Meanings
- To run off in secret to marry, typically against the wishes of others. Rather than plan a big wedding, they eloped to a courthouse in another state.
- To run away, especially of a patient leaving care without permission (clinical use). Staff sounded the alarm when the resident eloped from the ward. technical
Word origin
From Anglo-Norman 'aloper' (to run away from a husband with a lover), likely related to Middle Dutch 'ontlopen' (to run away) and to the root of 'leap'.
Remember it
ELOPE hides 'LOPE' - lovers LOPE off together to wed in a hurry.
A little poem
No church, no aisle, no waiting list of cousins-
just a borrowed car and a witness half-asleep.
Love, it turns out, needs only two and a door.
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Wordplay
- Why did the couple bring a ladder to the wedding? Because they planned to elope - and old habits leap high.
What it teaches
Some vows matter more for the two who make them than the crowd who witnesses them.
Quick facts
What does ELOPE mean?
To run away secretly in order to get married, usually without family approval.
Is ELOPE a valid word?
Yes — ELOPE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ELOPE?
ELOPE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ELOPE come from?
From Anglo-Norman 'aloper' (to run away from a husband with a lover), likely related to Middle Dutch 'ontlopen' (to run away) and to the root of 'leap'.
What can ELOPE teach us?
Some vows matter more for the two who make them than the crowd who witnesses them.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.