Crossword-Solution: EARN 4 letters, 491 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Earn	n.	See Ern, n.
Earn	v. t.	To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).
Earn	v. t.	To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.
Earn	v. t. & i.	To grieve.
Earn	v. i.	To long; to yearn.
Earn	v. i.	To curdle, as milk.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
EARN	anagram	AERN, ANER, ARNE, ERAN, ERNA, NARE, NEAR, NERA, RANE, RENA

We have 491 clues for the answer “EARN”

Clue	Answers
"I ___ that I eat!": Shak.	1 answer
"I ___ that I eat, get that I wear."—As You Like It.	1 answer
"Urn" homonym	1 answer
Accrue income	1 answer
Accrue interest	1 answer
Accrue, as interest	1 answer
Achieve through hard work	1 answer
Acquire "the old-fashioned way"	1 answer
Acquire by labor	1 answer
Acquire by one's efforts	1 answer
Acquire by service.	1 answer
Acquire justifiably	1 answer
Acquire through clock-punching	1 answer
Acquire through effort	1 answer
Acquire through hard work	1 answer
Acquire through merit	1 answer
Acquire through work	1 answer
Acquire, as an allowance	1 answer
Actually work to get	1 answer
Anagram for near	1 answer
Attain justly	1 answer
Backyard Babies "___ the Crown"	1 answer
Be a jobholder	1 answer
Be gainfully employed	1 answer
Be on the payroll	1 answer
Be paid for work	1 answer
Be paid, as a salary	1 answer
Be salaried	1 answer
Become deserving of	1 answer
Become entitled to	1 answer
Become worthy of	1 answer
Bird that becomes another bird when a T is added in front	1 answer
Bring home bacon	1 answer
Bring home from work	1 answer
Bring home the groceries	1 answer
Bring home, as a salary	1 answer
Bring home, as the bacon	1 answer
Bring home, in a way	1 answer
Bring home, so to speak	1 answer
Bring in as income or interest	1 answer
Bring in, as a salary	1 answer
Bring in, as income	1 answer
Bring in, as money	1 answer
Bring in, as pay	1 answer
Bring in, from tour	1 answer
Bring in, moneywise	1 answer
Cause deservedly	1 answer
Classic Hanks line in "Saving Private Ryan," "___ this"	1 answer
Clear, as with six figures	1 answer
Clear, on a paycheck	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with EARN (5)

Thus saying rose The Monarch, and prevented all reply, Prudent, least from his resolution rais’d Others among the chief might offer now (Certain to be refus’d) what erst they feard; And so refus’d might in opinion stand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Since then, it is agreed that only a select few have risen to the heights of bombast required to earn this dubious dignity --- but there is no agreement on *which* few.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

While he did believe that his people would receive their full rights at some future date, he insisted that "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house." Economic opportunity was far more important than either social equality or political rights.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

During several afternoons I have been engaged in an interesting, maybe useful, piece of work—that is to say, I have been trying to make the mighty Jungfrau earn her living—earn it in a most humble sphere, but on a prodigious scale, on a prodigious scale of necessity, for she couldn’t do anything in a small way with her size and style.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Nor was it out of keeping with the general coarseness and matter-of-fact character of the age, that the son should be willing to earn an honest penny, or, rather, a weighty amount of sterling pounds, from the purse of his father’s deadly enemy.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with EARN (3)

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..) This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.

John C. Parkin F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

... even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

Jeannette Walls Half Broke Horses

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,177 times in crossword archives (1924–2025).