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hard returns

hard returns is the plural of hard return.

Meaning of hard return

Noun

hard return (plural hard returns)

  1. The type of newline that represents the semantic concept of a paragraph break (as opposed to the type that represents merely a line break in word wrap); sometimes represented visually with the pilcrow character (¶).

Questions about hard returns

What is hard returns the plural of?
Hard returns is the plural of hard return.

Words near hard returns in the dictionary

  1. hard redirect
  2. hard redirects
  3. hard reset
  4. hard resets
  5. hard return
  6. hard returns
  7. hard right
  8. hard rock
  9. hard rocker
  10. hard rockers
  11. hard roe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard returns (page history and authors); hard return (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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