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combes

combes is the plural of combe.

Meaning of combe

Noun

combe (plural combes)

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts
  2. A cirque.

See all 11 meanings of combe

Proper noun capitalized: Combes

Combes

  1. (plural) plural of Combe

Questions about combes

What is combes the plural of?
Combes is the plural of combe.
What part of speech is combes?
Combes is a proper noun.

Words near combes in the dictionary

  1. Comberbach
  2. Comberbaches
  3. Comberow
  4. combers
  5. Comberton
  6. combes
  7. combest
  8. Combests
  9. combeth
  10. combfish
  11. combfishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: combes (page history and authors); Combes (page history and authors); combe (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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