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digests

digests is the plural of digest.

digests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of digest.

Meaning of digest

Noun

digest (plural digests)

  1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
    • By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years.1986 December 21, Donald Stone, “Gay Male Fiction Comes of Age in Anthology”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 8
  2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
    • Comyn's Digest
  3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
    • Reader's Digest is published monthly.
  4. The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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Questions about digests

What is digests the plural of?
Digests is the plural of digest.

Words near digests in the dictionary

  1. digestome
  2. digestomes
  3. digestor
  4. digestors
  5. digestory
  6. digests
  7. digesture
  8. digg
  9. diggability
  10. diggable
  11. digged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: digests (page history and authors); digest (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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