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biles

biles is the plural of bile.

Meaning of bile

Noun (1)

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

  1. (usually) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
    Synonyms:
    bili-, chole-, gall
  2. (usually) Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. (usually) Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
    • I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Noun (2)

bile (plural biles)

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

See all 5 meanings of bile

Proper noun capitalized: Biles

Biles

  1. A surname.

Noun capitalized: Biles

Biles (plural Biles)

  1. A gymnastic maneuver consisting of a double half layout, with full twist and blind landing.
    • In gymnastics, if you do a double layout with half turn then you're doing a ‘Biles’2016 August 12, “'The Biles' and other famous moves named after Olympic athletes and footballers”, in BBC Newsbeat
    • What if she was training a Biles (double layout half out) on beam? That would just be incredible2019 November 7, 4piepsilon0, “Simone training a double layout beam dismount?! [comment]”, in Reddit

Forms of biles

Proper noun
alternative formByles
Noun
pluralBiles

Origin of biles

Uncertain or disputed. Commonly thought to derive from Old English bil (“bladed weapon”), a bill, billhook. Other theories suggest a connection to Old English bile (“beak of a bird”), or from (son of) William.

Named after American gymnast Simone Biles

Questions about biles

What does biles mean?
Biles means a surname.
What is biles the plural of?
Biles is the plural of bile.
What part of speech is biles?
Biles can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near biles in the dictionary

  1. bileptons
  2. bilerp
  3. bilerped
  4. bilerping
  5. bilerps
  6. biles
  7. bilestone
  8. bilestones
  9. bilete
  10. Biletskyi
  11. bilevel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biles (page history and authors); Biles (page history and authors); bile (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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