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abandonwares

abandonwares is the plural of abandonware.

Meaning of abandonware

Noun

abandonware (countable and uncountable, plural abandonwares)

  1. A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.
    • RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a^([sic]) evaluation
      RR> version available?
      It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <ff1_9610122110@mb.fidonet.org>

Questions about abandonwares

What is abandonwares the plural of?
Abandonwares is the plural of abandonware.

Words near abandonwares in the dictionary

  1. abandonments
  2. abandonness
  3. abandons
  4. abandons ship
  5. abandonware
  6. abandonwares
  7. abands
  8. Abaneeme
  9. abanet
  10. abanets
  11. Abanga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abandonwares (page history and authors); abandonware (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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