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needments

needments is the plural of needment.

Meaning of needment

Noun

needment (plural needments)

  1. (archaic) Something needed or wanted.
    Synonyms:
    must, necessity
  2. (archaic, in plural) outfit; necessary luggage
    • His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind,
      His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about needments

What is needments the plural of?
Needments is the plural of needment.

Words near needments in the dictionary

  1. needling
  2. needlingly
  3. needlings
  4. needly
  5. needment
  6. needments
  7. needn't
  8. needn't've
  9. needna
  10. neednae
  11. needs

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