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cowanis

cowanis is the plural of cowan.

Meaning of cowan

Noun (1)

cowan (plural cowans or (obsolete) cowanis)

  1. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
  2. A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
  3. (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
  4. (attributive) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.

Noun (2)

cowan (plural cowans)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.

See all 14 meanings of cowan

Questions about cowanis

What is cowanis the plural of?
Cowanis is the plural of cowan.

Words near cowanis in the dictionary

  1. cowalkers
  2. cowals
  3. cowan
  4. Cowan Bridge
  5. Cowangie
  6. cowanis
  7. cowans
  8. Cowanses
  9. Cowanshannock
  10. cowanyoung
  11. coward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowanis (page history and authors); cowan (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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