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colls

colls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coll.

Meaning of coll

Verb

coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To hug or embrace.
    • So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 420

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Proper noun capitalized: Colls

Colls

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Origin of colls

From Coll + patronymic suffix -s.

Questions about colls

What does colls mean?
Colls means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is colls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Colls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coll.
What part of speech is colls?
Colls is a proper noun.

Words near colls in the dictionary

  1. collour
  2. collours
  3. collow
  4. colloxylin
  5. colloxyline
  6. colls
  7. colluctancy
  8. colluctation
  9. colluctations
  10. collude
  11. colluded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colls (page history and authors); Colls (page history and authors); coll (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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