Synonyms for serpent

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sur-puh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɜr pənt

Définition of serpent

Origin : c.1300, "limbless reptile," also the tempter in Gen. iii:1-5, from Old French serpent, sarpent "snake, serpent" (12c.), from Latin serpentem (nominative serpens) "snake; creeping thing," also the name of a constellation, from present participle of serpere "to creep," from PIE *serp- "to crawl, creep" (cf. Sanskrit sarpati "creeps," sarpah "serpent;" Greek herpein "to creep," herpeton "serpent;" Albanian garper "serpent").
Used figuratively to express spiral or regularly sinuous, e.g. as the word for a type of musical instrument (1730). Serpent's tongue as figurative of venomous or stinging speech is from mistaken medieval notion that the serpent's tongue was its "sting." Serpent's tongue also was a name given to fossil shark's teeth (c.1600).

noun reptile

Example sentences :

I think you'd better get rid of that Shandy serpent; he seems ripe for any deviltry.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

In moving I had trodden on or touched the serpent with my foot, and it had bitten me just above the ankle.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

Cursed be the serpent that bit you and had not sufficient power in its venom to kill!
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox

Had she produced a serpent, I could not have been more frightened.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

But who can say that the serpent of his tribe has forgotten his wisdom?
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

But the Rector felt that he was listening to the excuses of a serpent.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

What was there to ask that would not be a challenge to her to lie, as the serpent had lied?
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

The serpent had asked him to be gentle with her—had dared to ask him.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

I would have said,' cried Mr Pecksniff, 'that the Serpent lied.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

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