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neats

neats is the plural of neat.

Meaning of neat

Noun (1)

neat (plural neats)

  1. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

Noun (2)

neat (plural neats or neat)

  1. (archaic) A bull or cow.
    • Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, / may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. / And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, / hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse.1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, “Januarye”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and...

Noun (3)

neat pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) Cattle collectively.
    • From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat / And shepheards singing to their flockes, that fed,1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 467
    Synonyms:
    nolt

See all 16 meanings of neat

Proper noun capitalized: Neats

Neats

  1. (plural) plural of Neat

Questions about neats

What is neats the plural of?
Neats is the plural of neat.
What part of speech is neats?
Neats is a proper noun.

Words near neats in the dictionary

  1. neato torpedo
  2. neatresse
  3. neatresses
  4. neatrup
  5. neatrups
  6. neats
  7. neatsfoot
  8. neatwork
  9. Neave
  10. neaves
  11. neb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neats (page history and authors); Neats (page history and authors); neat (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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