name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   plural of raffle form-of, plural

Verb

1. 1
   third-person singular simple present indicative of raffle form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.
2. 2
   The Raffles Hotel, Singapore. colloquial

Synonyms

All synonyms

robberrobin hoodsir thomas stamford raffles

Etymology

May comes from a Scandinavian source like Old Norse refr (“fox”) + hol (“hole”), or comes from Raphael, with a patronymic suffix -s.

Related phrases

Raffles BayRaffles IslandRaffles's malkohaRafflesia arnoldii

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.