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cotes

cotes is the plural of cote.

Meaning of cote

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

  1. A cottage or hut.
  2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
    • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Cotes

Cotes (countable and uncountable, plural Coteses or Cotes)

  1. (countable) A surname.
  2. A hamlet near Levens, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD4886).
  3. A hamlet and civil parish (served by Burton on the Wolds, Cotes and Prestwold Parish Council) in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SK5520).
  4. A hamlet in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SJ8434).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cotes

Cotes

  1. (plural) plural of Cote

Forms of cotes

pluralCoteses
pluralCotes

Words formed from cotes

Phrases with cotes

Questions about cotes

What does cotes mean?
Cotes means a surname.
What is cotes the plural of?
Cotes is the plural of cote.
What part of speech is cotes?
Cotes is a proper noun.

Words near cotes in the dictionary

  1. coterminosity
  2. coterminous
  3. coterminously
  4. coterminousness
  5. cotery
  6. cotes
  7. Cotesian
  8. cotest
  9. cotested
  10. cotesting
  11. cotests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotes (page history and authors); Cotes (page history and authors); cote (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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