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fosses

fosses is the plural of foss.

fosses is the plural of fosse.

Meaning of foss

Noun

foss (plural fosses)

  1. (Northern England) A waterfall.
    • Another of his flock was spotted garrotted, one found twisted and drowned at the bottom of a foss and a third split cleanly from scut to teeth.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101

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Meaning of fosse

Noun

fosse (plural fosses)

  1. A ditch or moat.
    • [T]he ground was […] scattered with the masses of ruined buildings, that had formerly been part of the outward fortifications, but of which some were fallen into the fosse, and others overgrown with alder, ash, and arbeal.1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 486

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Proper noun capitalized: Fosses

Fosses

  1. (plural) plural of Fosse

Questions about fosses

What is fosses the plural of?
Fosses is the plural of foss.
What part of speech is fosses?
Fosses is a proper noun.

Words near fosses in the dictionary

  1. fossed
  2. Fossen
  3. Fossens
  4. FOSSer
  5. FOSSers
  6. fosses
  7. fosset
  8. fossets
  9. Fossett
  10. fossette
  11. fossettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fosses (page history and authors); Fosses (page history and authors); foss (page history and authors); fosse (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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