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basics

basics is the plural of basic.

Meaning of basic

Noun

basic (plural basics)

  1. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
    • Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
  2. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
    • Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
    Synonyms:
    grounding
  3. Basic training.
    • The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.

See all 9 meanings of basic

Proper noun capitalized: BASICs

BASICs

  1. (plural) plural of BASIC

Phrases with basics

Questions about basics

What is basics the plural of?
Basics is the plural of basic.
What part of speech is basics?
Basics is a proper noun.

Words near basics in the dictionary

  1. basicostal
  2. basicoxal
  3. basicrania
  4. basicranial
  5. basicranium
  6. basics
  7. basid
  8. basidia
  9. basidial
  10. basidiate
  11. basidiobolaceous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basics (page history and authors); BASICs (page history and authors); basic (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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