hays
/heɪz/
hays is the plural of hay.
hays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hay.
Meaning of hay
Noun (1)
hay (countable and uncountable, plural hays)
- Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
- Make hay while sunne shines.1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC
- Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
- Cannabis; marijuana.
- I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947
- A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
Noun (2)
hay (plural hays)
Proper noun capitalized: Hays
Hays
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- A city, the county seat of Ellis County, Kansas.
- A census-designated place in Montana.
- A census-designated place in North Carolina.
- A city in Hays County, Texas.
- A male given name.
Origin of hays
Spelling variant of Hayes, which has multiple origins.
Words formed from hays
Phrases with hays
Words that rhyme with hays
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- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about hays
- What does hays mean?
- Hays means a surname.
- What is hays the plural of?
- Hays is the plural of hay.
- What part of speech is hays?
- Hays is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hays?
- Hays is pronounced /heɪz/.
Words near hays in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hays (page history and authors); Hays (page history and authors); hay (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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