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Colgates

Colgates is the plural of Colgate.

Meaning of Colgate

Proper noun

Colgate (countable and uncountable, plural Colgates)

  1. A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2332).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.
    • Poirot's lips moved. Inspector Colgate leaned forward. Poirot was murmuring, "It's so difficult to know which pieces are part of the fur rug and which are the cat's tail."1941, Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
  3. A particular brand of toothpaste.
    • The base of her electric toothbrush fell onto its side as she yanked a little too hard and squirted on a blob of Colgate. As the bristles met her front teeth, she savored the mint flavor on her tongue like peppermint candy.2012, Linda Joffe Hull, The Big Bang, page 13

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Questions about Colgates

What is Colgates the plural of?
Colgates is the plural of Colgate.

Words near Colgates in the dictionary

  1. colforsin daropate
  2. colfosceril
  3. Colgan
  4. Colgans
  5. Colgate
  6. Colgates
  7. Colglazier
  8. Colglaziers
  9. Colgrove
  10. Colgroves
  11. Colhuehuapian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Colgates (page history and authors); Colgate (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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