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404s

404s is the plural of 404.

404s is the third-person singular simple present indicative of 404.

Meaning of 404

Noun

404 (plural 404s)

  1. An error indicating that a web page could not be found.
    • Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.2007, Cristian Darie, Jaimie Sirovich, Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113
  2. (Nigeria, colloquial) Dog meat.

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Phrases with 404s

Questions about 404s

What is 404s the plural of?
404s is the plural of 404.

Words near 404s in the dictionary

  1. 404 page
  2. 404 pages
  3. 404'd
  4. 404ed
  5. 404ing
  6. 404s
  7. 40k
  8. 40s
  9. 40th
  10. 41%
  11. 41%'ed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 404s (page history and authors); 404 (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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