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appetites

appetites is the plural of appetite.

Meaning of appetite

Noun

appetite (countable and uncountable, plural appetites)

  1. A desire to eat food or consume drinks.
    • And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter
  2. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
    • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC
  3. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
    • appetite for reading

Phrases with appetites

Questions about appetites

What is appetites the plural of?
Appetites is the plural of appetite.

Words near appetites in the dictionary

  1. appetite
  2. appetite comes with eating
  3. appetited
  4. appetiteless
  5. appetitelessness
  6. appetites
  7. appetition
  8. appetitional
  9. appetitions
  10. appetitious
  11. appetitive

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