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hairdresses

hairdresses is the plural of hairdress.

hairdresses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hairdress.

Meaning of hairdress

Noun

hairdress (countable and uncountable, plural hairdresses)

  1. (countable) A hairstyle.
    • Just as the close, tight hairdress emphasizes and enlarges the face, so the large, loose arrangement that creates a large frame for the face makes it seem smaller by contrast .1938, Laurene Hempstead, Look Your Best: A Guide to Feminine Style and Beauty, page 13
  2. (uncountable) The process or act of styling hair.
    • The play is laid in the period when English society paid a great deal of attention to hairdress.1938, Robert W. Masters, Lillian Decker Masters, The Curtain Rises, Plays to Produce, page 281

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Questions about hairdresses

What is hairdresses the plural of?
Hairdresses is the plural of hairdress.

Words near hairdresses in the dictionary

  1. hairdressed
  2. hairdresser
  3. hairdresser's
  4. hairdressers
  5. hairdressers'
  6. hairdresses
  7. hairdressing
  8. hairdressing salon
  9. hairdressing salons
  10. hairdressings
  11. hairdried

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairdresses (page history and authors); hairdress (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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