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cowles

cowles is the plural of cowle.

Meaning of cowle

Noun

cowle (plural cowles)

  1. (India, obsolete) A lease, or grant in writing; a safe-conduct, amnesty, etc.
    • […] a cowle to the plaintiffs cawnies, and by another cowle to others, who did not belong to the village, 80 cawnies.1917, The Indian Law Reports, page 420

Proper noun capitalized: Cowles

Cowles

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Origin of cowles

From Cole + -s (“patronymic suffix”).

Questions about cowles

What does cowles mean?
Cowles means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is cowles the plural of?
Cowles is the plural of cowle.
What part of speech is cowles?
Cowles is a proper noun.

Words near cowles in the dictionary

  1. cowle
  2. cowled
  3. cowleech
  4. cowleeches
  5. cowleeching
  6. cowles
  7. cowlesite
  8. cowless
  9. cowlessness
  10. cowlet
  11. cowlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowles (page history and authors); Cowles (page history and authors); cowle (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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