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gotes

gotes is the plural of gote.

Meaning of gote

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

  1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
    • ... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the river Humber" is mentioned. The following extract from Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore (vol. v. p. 28.) may throw light on the site of this gote, one of the[…]1854, Notes and Queries, page 402
  2. (UK, dialectal) A drainage pipe.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) A deep miry place.

Questions about gotes

What is gotes the plural of?
Gotes is the plural of gote.

Words near gotes in the dictionary

  1. gotchya
  2. Gotco
  3. gotdamn
  4. gote
  5. Goteborg
  6. gotes
  7. goth
  8. goth out
  9. goth up
  10. goth venue
  11. goth-like

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotes (page history and authors); gote (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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