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adders

adders is the plural of adder.

Meaning of adder

Noun

adder (plural adders)

  1. (obsolete) Any snake.
    • CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and...1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. (UK) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
    • Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 245
  3. (UK) A common European adder (Vipera berus).
  4. A puff adder, of Africa (genus Bitis).
  5. (Canada, US) A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
  6. (Canada, US) A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America

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Noun capitalized: ADDers

ADDers

  1. (plural) plural of ADDer

Proper noun capitalized: Adders

Adders

  1. (archaic, Oxford University slang) Addison's Walk, Magdalen College, Oxford.

Origin of adders

Jocular modification of Addison + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

Phrases with adders

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Questions about adders

What does adders mean?
Adders means addison's Walk, Magdalen College, Oxford.
What is adders the plural of?
Adders is the plural of adder.
What part of speech is adders?
Adders can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near adders in the dictionary

  1. Adderley Green
  2. Adderleys
  3. adderlike
  4. Adderly
  5. Adderlys
  6. adders
  7. addersmeat
  8. addersmeats
  9. Adderson
  10. adderstone
  11. Adderstone with Lucker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adders (page history and authors); ADDers (page history and authors); Adders (page history and authors); adder (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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