name
Meaning 1
plural of Double
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
doubles
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Meaning 2
plural of double
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
Meaning 3
A game between pairs of players.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles.
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noun
Meaning 4
Bell changes rung on five bells.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: campanology, history, human-sciences, sciences
Examples
- A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.
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noun
Meaning 5
A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
third-person singular simple present indicative of double
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Examples
- The population doubles every ten minutes.
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noun
Meaning 7
tennis played with two players on each side
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tennis, lawn tennis
noun
Meaning 8
badminton played with two players on each side
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: badminton
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: dobles — a game between pairs of players
- Czech: čtyřhra — a game between pairs of players
- Finnish: nelinpeli — a game between pairs of players
- Hungarian: páros — a game between pairs of players
- Irish: cluiche dúbailte — a game between pairs of players
- Japanese: ダブルス (daburusu) — a game between pairs of players
- Korean: 복식 (boksik) — a game between pairs of players
- Māori: tokowhā — a game between pairs of players
- Māori: pirirua — a game between pairs of players
- Māori: takirua — a game between pairs of players
- Polish: debel — a game between pairs of players
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