bats
/bæts/
bats is the plural of bat.
bats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bat.
Meaning of bat
Noun (1)
bat (plural bats)
- Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01
- Synonyms:
- chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flitterbat, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying mouse, rattlemouse, reremouse
- An old woman.
- "Isn't it lovely?" I smiled and thought: "Yes it is. It's also a Blackbird, you silly old bat!2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 196
Noun (2)
bat (plural bats)
- A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- He's a good fielder and a valuable bat.
Adjective
bats (comparative more bats, superlative most bats)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bats
Bats
- A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.
- Synonyms:
- Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Batsi, Tsova-Tush, Tush, Mosok
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bats
Bats
- A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Bats
Bats
- A nickname for Batman.
- The Dark Knight Returns, published in four installments in 1986, is an extremely grim vision of a near-future Batman in a crime-ridden Gotham (reminiscent of Death Wish–era New York) that went to seed after Bats hung up the cape and cowl years prior.2014 July 23, Abraham Riesman, “Dear Hollywood: Stop Using Frank Miller’s Batman Stories As Source Material”, in Vulture
Synonyms of bats
Forms of bats
| comparative | more bats |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bats |
Origin of bats
From Bat(man) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Words formed from bats
Phrases with bats
- at bats
- bats in
- bats out
- big bats
- fox bats
- sea bats
- baby bats
- bats away
- bats deep
- dead bats
- monk bats
- nail bats
89 more phrasesFewer phrases
- tomb bats
- bats about
- bats round
- cross bats
- fruit bats
- fungo bats
- ghost bats
- harpy bats
- hoary bats
- bats an eye
- bats around
- corked bats
- pallid bats
- vesper bats
- bulldog bats
- cricket bats
- Indiana bats
- mastiff bats
- painted bats
- specter bats
- spectre bats
- trident bats
- vampire bats
- baseball bats
- bits and bats
- Brandt's bats
- Dormer's bats
- New York bats
- soricine bats
- spectral bats
- straight bats
- bats an eyelid
- bats of an eye
- big brown bats
- bumblebee bats
- horseshoe bats
- Leisler's bats
- roundleaf bats
- bats a thousand
- bats one's eyes
- bats the breeze
- Geoffroy's bats
- leaf-nosed bats
- long-eared bats
- Natterer's bats
- sheathtail bats
- slit-faced bats
- alien space bats
- Daubenton's bats
- free-tailed bats
- ghost-faced bats
- Horsfield's bats
- mouse-eared bats
- sheath-tail bats
- swift fruit bats
- bats five hundred
- bats one thousand
- hollow-faced bats
- little brown bats
- long-tongued bats
- sheathtailed bats
- false vampire bats
- particoloured bats
- sheath-tailed bats
- bats for both sides
- Dashe's nectar bats
- bats one's eyelashes
- Moloney's mimic bats
- Thomas's nectar bats
- western mastiff bats
- Damara horseshoe bats
- chocolate wattled bats
- Kitti's hog-nosed bats
- Paulian's trident bats
- Semon's roundleaf bats
- bats for the other side
- Malayan slit-faced bats
- Semon's leaf-nosed bats
- Timorese horseshoe bats
- greater mouse-eared bats
- had bats in one's belfry
- has bats in one's belfry
- have bats in one's belfry
- Cadena's long-tongued bats
- Major's long-fingered bats
- Pallas's long-tongued bats
- Patton's long-tongued bats
- having bats in one's belfry
- round-eared tube-nosed bats
Words that rhyme with bats
Questions about bats
- What does bats mean?
- Bats means mad, insane.
- What is bats the plural of?
- Bats is the plural of bat.
- What part of speech is bats?
- Bats can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bats?
- Bats is pronounced /bæts/.
Words near bats in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bats (page history and authors); Bats (page history and authors); bat (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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