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aks

/æks/

aks verb: to ask.

Verb

aks (third-person singular simple present aks or akses, present participle aksing, simple past and past participle aksed)

  1. (Africa, Multicultural-London-English, West, West-Country, dialectal, African-American Vernacular) To ask.
    • AKS, ask.1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, London: J.R.Smith, page 3
    • Another thing, kid, don't aks me no more questions tonight.2004, Larry Dean Hamilton, A Gathering of Angels, page 132

Noun capitalized: AKs

AKs

  1. (plural) plural of AK

Forms of aks

third-person singular presentaks
third-person singular presentakses
present participleaksing
past participleaksed
pastaksed

Origin of aks

From Old English acsian (“ask”); see ax for more.

Words that rhyme with aks

32 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about aks

What does aks mean?
Aks means to ask.
What part of speech is aks?
Aks can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce aks?
Aks is pronounced /æks/.
What is the past tense of aks?
The past tense of aks is aksed.

Words near aks in the dictionary

  1. Akrotiri and Dhekelia
  2. Akrouh
  3. Akrouhs
  4. AKRs
  5. Akrukay
  6. aks
  7. Aksai Chin
  8. Aksai-chin
  9. aksaite
  10. aksaites
  11. aksakal

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