Words

English

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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; not used in singular form, 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 Dutch: woorden (nl) Faroese: orð (fo) French: mots (fr) German: Worte (de) or Wörter (de) Greek: λόγοι (el), λόγια (el) n.

Greenlandic: oqaatsit (kl) Icelandic: orð (is) Indonesian: kata-kata (id) Italian: parole (it) Norwegian: ord (no) pl. Scots: wirds Spanish: palabras (es)

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