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Dunciads

Dunciads is the plural of Dunciad.

Meaning of Dunciad

Noun

Dunciad (plural Dunciads)

  1. Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
    • The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets

Questions about Dunciads

What is Dunciads the plural of?
Dunciads is the plural of Dunciad.

Words near Dunciads in the dictionary

  1. dunchi
  2. dunchin
  3. dunching
  4. Dunchurch
  5. Dunciad
  6. Dunciads
  7. duncical
  8. duncified
  9. duncifies
  10. duncify
  11. duncifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dunciads (page history and authors); Dunciad (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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