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lodes

lodes is the plural of lode.

Meaning of lode

Noun

lode (plural lodes)

  1. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
  2. (dialectal) A watercourse.
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
    • The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small...1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14
  4. (broadly) A rich source of supply.
    • In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American

Proper noun capitalized: Lodes

Lodes (plural Lodeses)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

Forms of lodes

pluralLodeses

Origin of lodes

Topographic surname for someone living by a path, road or watercourse, from Middle English lode (“way, path”), or a habitational surname from any of several minor places named Load or Lode.

Phrases with lodes

Questions about lodes

What does lodes mean?
Lodes means a surname from Middle English.
What is lodes the plural of?
Lodes is the plural of lode.
What part of speech is lodes?
Lodes is a proper noun.

Words near lodes in the dictionary

  1. loden
  2. lodenosine
  3. lodens
  4. Loder
  5. Loders
  6. lodes
  7. Lodeses
  8. lodeship
  9. lodeships
  10. lodesman
  11. lodesmen

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