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Dubois

/duˈbɔɪz/

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surname/du(ː)ˈbɔɪz/

Dubois proper noun: a city, the county seat of Clark County, Idaho, United States.

Proper noun (1)

Dubois (countable and uncountable, plural Duboises or Dubois)

  1. A city, the county seat of Clark County, Idaho, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community in Dubois County, Indiana, United States.
  3. A town in Wyoming, United States.
  4. (countable) A surname from French.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: DuBois

DuBois

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Dubois.
  2. A city in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States, renamed (from Rumbarger) after lumber magnate John DuBois.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: duBois

duBois

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Dubois.

Forms of Dubois

pluralDuboises
pluralDubois
alternative formduBois
alternative formdu Bois
alternative formDu Bois
alternative formDuBois

Origin of Dubois

Borrowed from French Dubois. See there for more.

Phrases with Dubois

Questions about Dubois

What does Dubois mean?
Dubois means a city, the county seat of Clark County, Idaho, United States.
What part of speech is Dubois?
Dubois is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Dubois?
Dubois is pronounced /duˈbɔɪz/.

Words near Dubois in the dictionary

  1. Dublândia
  2. Dubna
  3. Dubnica nad Váhom
  4. dubnium
  5. Dubno
  6. Dubois
  7. Dubois County
  8. Duboise
  9. Duboises
  10. duboisia
  11. DuBoisian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dubois (page history and authors); DuBois (page history and authors); duBois (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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