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double eagles

double eagles is the plural of double eagle.

Meaning of double eagle

Noun

double eagle (plural double eagles)

  1. (US) A gold coin with a face value of $20 formerly used in the United States, the double of the US eagle coin.
  2. Three under par, one stroke short of an ace (a hole in one) on a par-five hole.
  3. A representation of an eagle with two heads, as in the heraldic arms of Russia and Austria and in iconography from Antiquity onward (especially in the Roman Empire).
    • When a legion pitched its camp, the eagle was placed in its centre; and if it happened that two legions encamped together, they erected upon the limits of the two camps a double eagle, with heads and wings opposed.1865, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 294

Questions about double eagles

What is double eagles the plural of?
Double eagles is the plural of double eagle.

Words near double eagles in the dictionary

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  8. double effect
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  10. double emulsion
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