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moats

moats is the plural of moat.

moats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of moat.

Meaning of moat

Noun

moat (plural moats)

  1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
    Synonyms:
    fosse
  2. (figuratively) A characteristic of a business that enhances its resilience against competitive pressures, arising from the inherent nature of its products, services, brand, or other structural advantages.
    • No matter how good your company's product is or how quickly the industry is growing, if there is no moat, competitors will invade your castle and burn it down.2013, John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper, Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings From the Coming Crisis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
  3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
  4. A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
  5. (obsolete) A hill or mound.

See all 7 meanings of moat

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Moats

Moats (plural Moatses)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Moats

Moats

  1. (plural) plural of Moat

Forms of moats

pluralMoatses

Origin of moats

Variant of Moat.

Phrases with moats

Questions about moats

What does moats mean?
Moats means a surname.
What is moats the plural of?
Moats is the plural of moat.
What part of speech is moats?
Moats is a proper noun.

Words near moats in the dictionary

  1. moastly
  2. moat
  3. moated
  4. moating
  5. moatlike
  6. moats
  7. Moatses
  8. Moattalite
  9. Moattalites
  10. moaty
  11. Moazagotl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moats (page history and authors); Moats (page history and authors); moat (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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