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mathoms

mathoms is the plural of mathom.

Meaning of mathom

Noun

mathom (plural mathoms)

  1. A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.
    • When the door of the mathom shop is closed and the Inhabitant leaves the print of his footsteps for a moment on the wooden stair, things pause. There is no movement, not even of time. The mathoms listen until, downstairs, carpets and rugs swallow the noises of living, [...]1989, Lewis Turco, The shifting web
    Synonyms:
    trinket

Questions about mathoms

What is mathoms the plural of?
Mathoms is the plural of mathom.

Words near mathoms in the dictionary

  1. mathmos
  2. mathnawi
  3. mathnawis
  4. Matho
  5. mathom
  6. mathoms
  7. Mathomus
  8. Mathon
  9. mathophobia
  10. Mathoura
  11. mathphobia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mathoms (page history and authors); mathom (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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