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long ues

long ues is the plural of long u.

Meaning of long u

Noun

long u (plural long ues or long u's)

  1. The sound /juː/, as in the words "cube" and "mute". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in cubing versus cubbing).
    Antonyms:
    short u

Questions about long ues

What is long ues the plural of?
Long ues is the plural of long u.

Words near long ues in the dictionary

  1. long tons
  2. long track
  3. long trousers
  4. long u
  5. long u's
  6. long ues
  7. long underwear
  8. long vac
  9. Long Vac term
  10. Long Vac terms
  11. long vacation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: long ues (page history and authors); long u (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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