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educated guesses

educated guesses is the plural of educated guess.

Meaning of educated guess

Noun

educated guess (plural educated guesses)

  1. A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
    • Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian

Questions about educated guesses

What is educated guesses the plural of?
Educated guesses is the plural of educated guess.

Words near educated guesses in the dictionary

  1. educatability
  2. educatable
  3. educate
  4. educated
  5. educated guess
  6. educated guesses
  7. educated incapacity
  8. educatedness
  9. educatee
  10. educatees
  11. educates

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