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Ames

/eɪmz/

Ames proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun (1)

Ames (countable and uncountable, plural Ameses)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado.
  3. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.
  5. A city in Story County, Iowa.
    • Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime – a class "D" felony – third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire.2019 December 19, Andrea May Sahouri, Gage Miskimen, Danielle Gehr, “Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for setting LGBTQ flag on fire”, in USA Today
  6. An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
  7. A census-designated place in Dodge County, Nebraska.
  8. A village in Montgomery County, New York.
  9. A township in Athens County, Ohio.
  10. A town in Major County, Oklahoma.
  11. A minor city in Liberty County, Texas.
  12. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
  13. A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
  14. A municipality in A Coruña province, Galicia, Spain.

Proper noun (2)

Ames

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Amy.
    • Brittany looked up, and Amy's arrival was finally noticed. “Hey, Ames,” Brittany said, waving from the corner of the couch.2019, Jenn Gott, Who's Afraid of Amy Sinclair?

Noun capitalized: AMEs

AMEs

  1. (plural) plural of AME

Forms of Ames

pluralAmeses

Origin of Ames

From the clipping of Amy + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Words formed from Ames

Phrases with Ames

Words that rhyme with Ames

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Ames

What does Ames mean?
Ames means a surname.
What part of speech is Ames?
Ames can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Ames?
Ames is pronounced /eɪmz/.

Words near Ames in the dictionary

  1. Amersons
  2. Amerton
  3. Amertoy
  4. Amertoys
  5. Amery
  6. Ames
  7. Ames room
  8. Ames rooms
  9. Ames test
  10. Ames trapezoid
  11. Ames trapezoids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ames (page history and authors); AMEs (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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