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forges

forges is the plural of forge.

Meaning of forge

Noun

forge (plural forges)

  1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
    • Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden
  2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
    Synonyms:
    smithy, smithery
  3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
    • In the greater bodies the forge was easy.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
  4. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
    • If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    software forge

See all 11 meanings of forge

Proper noun capitalized: Forges

Forges

  1. (plural) plural of Forge

Phrases with forges

Questions about forges

What is forges the plural of?
Forges is the plural of forge.
What part of speech is forges?
Forges is a proper noun.

Words near forges in the dictionary

  1. forgeress
  2. forgeresses
  3. forgeries
  4. forgers
  5. forgery
  6. forges
  7. forges ahead
  8. forges over
  9. forgest
  10. forget
  11. forget about

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forges (page history and authors); Forges (page history and authors); forge (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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