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loupes

loupes is the plural of loupe.

Meaning of loupe

Noun

loupe (plural loupes)

  1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
    • Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213
  2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

See all 3 meanings of loupe

Proper noun capitalized: Loupes

Loupes

  1. (plural) plural of Loupe

Questions about loupes

What is loupes the plural of?
Loupes is the plural of loupe.
What part of speech is loupes?
Loupes is a proper noun.

Words near loupes in the dictionary

  1. loup-cervier
  2. loup-cerviers
  3. loup-garou
  4. loup-garous
  5. loupe
  6. loupes
  7. louping
  8. louping ill
  9. louping-ill
  10. loups
  11. loups-garous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loupes (page history and authors); Loupes (page history and authors); loupe (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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