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adlets

adlets is the plural of adlet.

Meaning of adlet

Noun (1)

adlet (plural adlets)

  1. A small advertisement.
    • Many ambitious men have used these adlets to better their positions and incomes.1916, Hide and Leather's Year Book and Directory for ...
  2. A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.
    • 5 Merging of Adlets
      Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering...

Noun (2)

adlet (plural adlets)

  1. A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).
    • Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN

Noun capitalized: Adlets

Adlets

  1. (plural) plural of Adlet

Questions about adlets

What is adlets the plural of?
Adlets is the plural of adlet.
What part of speech is adlets?
Adlets is a noun.

Words near adlets in the dictionary

  1. Adlerism
  2. adless
  3. adlessness
  4. Adlestrop
  5. adlet
  6. adlets
  7. Adlett
  8. Adley
  9. Adleys
  10. adlib
  11. adlibbed

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