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clean slates

clean slates is the plural of clean slate.

Meaning of clean slate

Noun

clean slate (plural clean slates)

  1. (broadly, figuratively) A fresh start.
    • Near-synonyms: new leaf, new page, new canvas, new sheet; blank slate, blank canvas, tabula rasa
  2. A slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being entered in the log at the end of a watch.

Questions about clean slates

What is clean slates the plural of?
Clean slates is the plural of clean slate.

Words near clean slates in the dictionary

  1. clean shell
  2. clean shells
  3. clean skin
  4. clean skins
  5. clean slate
  6. clean slates
  7. clean someone's clock
  8. clean sweep
  9. clean sweeps
  10. clean teen
  11. clean teens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clean slates (page history and authors); clean slate (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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