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dows

/daʊz/

dows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dow.

dows is the plural of dow.

Meaning of dow

Verb (1)

dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed or dought)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal, obsolete) To be worth.
  2. (Northern England, dialectal, obsolete) To thrive, prosper.

Verb (2)

dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed)

  1. To furnish with a dower; to endow.

See all 8 meanings of dow

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dows

Dows (countable and uncountable, plural Dowses)

  1. A surname
  2. A placename
    1. A number of places in the United States
    2. A minor city in Franklin County and Wright County, Iowa, United States, named after William Greene Dows.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dows

Dows

  1. (plural) plural of Dow

Forms of dows

pluralDowses

Words that rhyme with dows

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Questions about dows

What does dows mean?
Dows means a surname.
What is dows the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dow.
What part of speech is dows?
Dows is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dows?
Dows is pronounced /daʊz/.

Words near dows in the dictionary

  1. dowry
  2. dowry death
  3. dowry deaths
  4. dowrying
  5. dowryless
  6. dows
  7. dowsabel
  8. dowsabels
  9. dowse
  10. dowsed
  11. dowser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dows (page history and authors); Dows (page history and authors); dow (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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