Word.ws English Dictionary

Galens

Galens is the plural of Galen.

Meaning of Galen

Noun

Galen (plural Galens)

  1. A physician.
    • It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—[…]1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge...

See all 4 meanings of Galen

Questions about Galens

What is Galens the plural of?
Galens is the plural of Galen.

Words near Galens in the dictionary

  1. Galenists
  2. galenite
  3. galenites
  4. galenobismutite
  5. galenoid
  6. Galens
  7. Galentine
  8. Galentine's Day
  9. Galentines
  10. galeny
  11. galeommatid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Galens (page history and authors); Galen (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Galens.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/galens. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.