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caps

/kæps/

caps is the plural of cap.

caps is the abbreviation of capabilities.

caps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cap.

Meaning of cap

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
    • The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
  2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard.
  4. A protective cover or seal.
    • He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth.
    • He had golden caps on his teeth.
  6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
    • There was snow on the cap of the mountain.

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Noun (1)

caps pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Capital letters; capitals.

Noun (2) capitalized: CAPS

CAPS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

Noun (3) capitalized: CAPs

CAPs

  1. (plural) plural of CAP

Noun (4) capitalized: Caps

Caps

  1. (plural) plural of Cap

Words formed from caps

Phrases with caps

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Words that rhyme with caps

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Questions about caps

What does caps mean?
Caps means capital letters; capitals.
What is caps the plural of?
Caps is the plural of cap.
What part of speech is caps?
Caps is a noun.
How do you pronounce caps?
Caps is pronounced /kæps/.

Words near caps in the dictionary

  1. caprylins
  2. capryloyl
  3. capryloyls
  4. caprylyl
  5. caprylyls
  6. caps
  7. caps and small caps
  8. caps it all
  9. caps it all off
  10. caps it off
  11. caps lock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caps (page history and authors); CAPS (page history and authors); CAPs (page history and authors); Caps (page history and authors); cap (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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