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flagstaves

flagstaves is the plural of flagstaff.

Meaning of flagstaff

Noun

flagstaff (plural flagstaffs or flagstaves)

  1. A pole on which a flag is raised.
    • Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning.1945, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm
    Synonyms:
    flagpole

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Questions about flagstaves

What is flagstaves the plural of?
Flagstaves is the plural of flagstaff.

Words near flagstaves in the dictionary

  1. Flagstaff Gully
  2. flagstaffite
  3. flagstaffs
  4. flagstand
  5. flagstands
  6. flagstaves
  7. flagstick
  8. flagsticks
  9. flagstone
  10. flagstoned
  11. flagstones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flagstaves (page history and authors); flagstaff (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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