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bow tie

bow tie is the alternative spelling of bowtie.

Meaning of bowtie

Noun

bowtie (plural bowties)

  1. A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
  2. (US) A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).

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Forms of bow tie

pluralbow ties

Questions about bow tie

What is bow tie the alternative spelling of?
Bow tie is the alternative spelling of bowtie.

Words near bow tie in the dictionary

  1. Bow Street Runner
  2. Bow Street Runners
  3. bow stroke
  4. bow thruster
  5. bow thrusters
  6. bow tie
  7. bow ties
  8. bow to
  9. bow up
  10. bow wave
  11. bow waves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bow tie (page history and authors); bowtie (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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