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fasts

fasts is the plural of fast.

fasts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fast.

Meaning of fast

Noun (1)

fast (plural fasts)

  1. (UK) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.
    Synonyms:
    express, express train, fast train

Noun (2)

fast (plural fasts)

  1. The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food.
    • And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18).
  2. Any of the fasting periods in the liturgical year.
    • And so may we enter the Fasts at hand, beginning Lent the 30th. day of the Month Mechir1662 Peter Gunning, The Holy Fast of Lent Defended Against All Its Prophaners: Or, a Discourse, Shewing that Lent-Fast was First Taught the World by the Apostles (1677 [1662]), p. 13 (translation of...

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Noun capitalized: FASTs

FASTs

  1. (plural) plural of FAST

Proper noun capitalized: Fasts

Fasts

  1. (plural) plural of Fast

Phrases with fasts

Questions about fasts

What is fasts the plural of?
Fasts is the plural of fast.
What part of speech is fasts?
Fasts can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near fasts in the dictionary

  1. fastpacker
  2. fastpackers
  3. fastpacking
  4. fastpacks
  5. fastpitch
  6. fasts
  7. fastuous
  8. fastuously
  9. fastuousness
  10. fastwalker
  11. fastwalkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fasts (page history and authors); FASTs (page history and authors); Fasts (page history and authors); fast (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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