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cabans

cabans is the plural of caban.

Meaning of caban

Noun

caban (plural cabans)

  1. (Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
    • After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher.1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

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Proper noun capitalized: Cabans

Cabans

  1. (plural) plural of Caban

Questions about cabans

What is cabans the plural of?
Cabans is the plural of caban.
What part of speech is cabans?
Cabans is a proper noun.

Words near cabans in the dictionary

  1. Cabanglasan
  2. Cabanilla
  3. Cabanillas
  4. Cabaniss
  5. cabanossi
  6. cabans
  7. Cabaon-an
  8. Cabarasan
  9. cabaret
  10. cabaretist
  11. cabaretists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabans (page history and authors); Cabans (page history and authors); caban (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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