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floes

floes is the plural of floe.

Meaning of floe

Noun

floe (plural floes)

  1. A low, flat mass of floating ice.
    • We could never pause when hauling through current-driven slush and ice for fear that the floes would slam together and crush one or both of the hulls.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 590-591
    Synonyms:
    ice floe

Phrases with floes

Questions about floes

What is floes the plural of?
Floes is the plural of floe.

Words near floes in the dictionary

  1. floeberg
  2. floebergs
  3. Floer homology
  4. Floersch
  5. Floersches
  6. floes
  7. flog
  8. flog a dead horse
  9. flog a dead pony
  10. flog someone round the fleet
  11. flog the bishop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floes (page history and authors); floe (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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