Doubles
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doubles is a noun meaning plural of double.
Meaning
plural of double.
More Meanings
- (sports, plural only) A game between pairs of players.
- (campanology, plural only) Bell changes rung on five bells.
- A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.
- third-person singular simple present indicative of double
Example Sentences
The population doubles every ten minutes.
A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.
Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include twofold, duple, dual, reduplicate, doubly, multiple.
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