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darks

/dɑː(ɹ)ks/

darks is the plural of dark.

darks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dark.

Meaning of dark

Noun

dark (usually uncountable, plural darks)

  1. (usually) A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
    • Dark surrounds us completely.
    Synonyms:
    darkness
  2. (usually) Ignorance.
    • We kept him in the dark.
  3. (usually) Nightfall.
    • It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
    Synonyms:
    crepusculum
  4. (usually) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
    • The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Darks

Darks

  1. (plural) plural of Dark
  2. A surname.

Phrases with darks

Questions about darks

What does darks mean?
Darks means a surname.
What is darks the plural of?
Darks is the plural of dark.
What part of speech is darks?
Darks is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce darks?
Darks is pronounced /dɑː(ɹ)ks/.

Words near darks in the dictionary

  1. darkon
  2. darkons
  3. darkpsy
  4. darkroom
  5. darkrooms
  6. darks
  7. darks up
  8. darkship
  9. darkshipper
  10. darkshippers
  11. darkside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: darks (page history and authors); Darks (page history and authors); dark (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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