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coates

UK/kəʊts/US/koʊts/

coates is the plural of coate.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Coates

Coates (countable and uncountable, plural Coates or Coateses)

  1. (countable) A surname.
    • In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, in CNN
  2. A village in Whittlesey parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL3097).
  3. A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO9700).
  4. A suburban area in Barnoldswick parish, Pendle borough, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8847).
  5. A hamlet in Stow parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, seemingly the same as Coates by Stow (OS grid ref SK9083).
  6. A hamlet in North Leverton with Habblesthorpe parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK8281).
  7. A hamlet in Barlavington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU9917).
  8. A suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland, west of the city centre (OS grid ref NT2373).
  9. A minor city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Coates

Coates

  1. (plural) plural of Coate

Forms of coates

pluralCoates
pluralCoateses

Words formed from coates

Questions about coates

What does coates mean?
Coates means a surname.
What is coates the plural of?
Coates is the plural of coate.
What part of speech is coates?
Coates is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce coates?
Coates is pronounced /kəʊts/ (UK).

Words near coates in the dictionary

  1. coatee
  2. coatees
  3. Coatepeque
  4. coater
  5. coaters
  6. coates
  7. Coatesville
  8. coateth
  9. coatful
  10. coatfuls
  11. coath

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