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cancels

cancels is the plural of cancel.

cancels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cancel.

Meaning of cancel

Noun

cancel (plural cancels)

  1. (US) A cancellation.
    1. (US) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
  2. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
    • A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC
  3. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  4. The page thus suppressed.
  5. The page that replaces it.

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Proper noun capitalized: Cancels

Cancels

  1. (plural) plural of Cancel

Phrases with cancels

Questions about cancels

What is cancels the plural of?
Cancels is the plural of cancel.
What part of speech is cancels?
Cancels is a proper noun.

Words near cancels in the dictionary

  1. cancells
  2. cancellus
  3. cancelment
  4. cancelments
  5. cancelous
  6. cancels
  7. cancels out
  8. cancels someone's Christmas
  9. Cancemini
  10. Canceo
  11. cancer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancels (page history and authors); Cancels (page history and authors); cancel (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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