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decumans

decumans is the plural of decuman.

Meaning of decuman

Noun

decuman (plural decumans)

  1. (obsolete) An extraordinarily large billow.
    • Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...

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Questions about decumans

What is decumans the plural of?
Decumans is the plural of decuman.

Words near decumans in the dictionary

  1. deculvert
  2. deculverted
  3. deculverting
  4. deculverts
  5. decuman
  6. decumans
  7. decumbence
  8. decumbency
  9. decumbent
  10. decumbently
  11. decumbiture

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