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eas

eas is the plural of ea.

Meaning of ea

Noun

ea (plural eas)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) A river or watercourse.
    • And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song...1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English

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Proper noun capitalized: EAS

EAS

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Emergency Alert System a public warning system that receives alerts from NWS, NOAA and other government and civil defense agencies and transmitted it to the general public through television and radio stations.

Noun (1) capitalized: EAS

EAS (plural EASes)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of equivalent airspeed.
    • 470 kts is a known engineering constraint. The FCS is certified to 333 kts. However, a Loss of Control (LOC) will probably not occur unless the EAS is in excess of 470 kts, which will lead to an LOC due to over-gained and under-damped FCS gains.2007 February 14, NASA, “1.4.2 Black Zones”, in Contingency Aborts 21007/31007, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021, page 13
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of East Asia Summit.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of electronic article surveillance.

Noun (2) capitalized: EAs

EAs

  1. (plural) plural of EA

Forms of eas

pluralEASes

Questions about eas

What is eas the plural of?
Eas is the plural of ea.
What part of speech is eas?
Eas can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near eas in the dictionary

  1. earworthy
  2. Eary
  3. Earys
  4. earywig
  5. earywigs
  6. eas
  7. EASA
  8. Easdale
  9. ease
  10. ease down
  11. ease nature

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eas (page history and authors); EAS (page history and authors); EAs (page history and authors); ea (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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