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doubles en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of double
    form of double
  2. (plural, plural-only) A game between pairs of players.
    • Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles.
  3. (plural, plural-only) Bell changes rung on five bells.
    • A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.
  4. A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.

Deriveds

mixed doubles · doubles net · American doubles · Australian doubles · Canadian doubles

Descendants

ダブルス

Translations (11)

mi pirirua (a game between pairs of players) · mi takirua (a game between pairs of players) · ca dobles (a game between pairs of players) · mi tokowhā (a game between pairs of players) · ja ダブルス (a game between pairs of players) · ko 복식 (a game between pairs of players) · hu páros (a game between pairs of players) · ga cluiche dúbailte (a game between pairs of players) · pl debel (a game between pairs of players) · cs čtyřhra (a game between pairs of players) · fi nelinpeli (a game between pairs of players)

doubles en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of double
    form of double
    • The population doubles every ten minutes.