words

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /wɜːdz/ (UK)

Noun

words

1. Plural form of word

   Words have a longer life than deeds. – Pindar, Greek poet

2. (plural only, informal) An angry discussion.

   They had words at the bar, but I don't know what about.

Translations

plural of "word", a part of a sentence

• Afrikaans: woorde
• Chinese: 言
• Czech: slova (cs) n pl
• Danish: ord (da) pl
• Dutch: woorden (nl)
• Faroese: orð (fo)
• French: mots (fr)
• German: Worte (de) or Wörter (de)
• Greek: λόγοι (el) (lógoi), λόγια (el) (lógia) n
• Greenlandic: oqaatsit (kl)

• Icelandic: orð (is)
• Indonesian: kata-kata (id)
• Italian: parole (it)
• Norwegian: ord (no) pl
• Romanian: cuvinte (ro), vorbe (ro)
• Scots: wirds
• Slovak: slová (sk) n pl
• Spanish: palabras (es)
• Walloon: mots (wa)

an angry discussion

• Dutch: woordenwisseling (nl) f

• Norwegian: krangel (no) m

Verb

words

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: want · home · whose · #235: words · given · hands · turned

Anagrams

• sword, s-word