nerves
UK/nɜːvz//nɝvz/
nerves is the plural of nerve.
nerves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nerve.
Meaning of nerve
Noun
nerve (plural nerves)
- A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
- The nerves can be seen through the skin.
- A neuron.
- A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
- Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.
- Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
- He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
- Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
- The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories
- One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
- All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.
Phrases with nerves
- nerves up
- nerves out
- raw nerves
- fifth nerves
- motor nerves
- nasal nerves
- optic nerves
- sural nerves
- ulnar nerves
- vagus nerves
- bag of nerves
- buccal nerves
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- eighth nerves
- facial nerves
- median nerves
- mental nerves
- radial nerves
- spinal nerves
- Vidian nerves
- war of nerves
- bags of nerves
- ciliary nerves
- cranial nerves
- frontal nerves
- lingual nerves
- phrenic nerves
- sciatic nerves
- wars of nerves
- abducens nerves
- abducent nerves
- acoustic nerves
- alveolar nerves
- auditory nerves
- cervical nerves
- cochlear nerves
- Jacobson nerves
- lacrimal nerves
- nerves of steel
- palatine nerves
- pathetic nerves
- petrosal nerves
- tympanic nerves
- accessory nerves
- bundle of nerves
- cavernous nerves
- ischiatic nerves
- laryngeal nerves
- maxillary nerves
- occipital nerves
- olfactory nerves
- pterygoid nerves
- saphenous nerves
- trochlear nerves
- wandering nerves
- zygomatic nerves
- bundles of nerves
- mandibular nerves
- masseteric nerves
- oculomotor nerves
- ophthalmic nerves
- trigeminal nerves
- vestibular nerves
- hypogastric nerves
- hypoglossal nerves
- nasociliary nerves
- infraorbital nerves
- intermediate nerves
- nasopalatine nerves
- supraorbital nerves
- deep petrosal nerves
- deep temporal nerves
- fifth cranial nerves
- pneumogastric nerves
- eighth cranial nerves
- glossopalatine nerves
- supratrochlear nerves
- supraclavicular nerves
- auriculotemporal nerves
- get on someone's nerves
- glossopharyngeal nerves
- got on someone's nerves
- lateral pectoral nerves
- zygomaticofacial nerves
- gets on someone's nerves
- inferior alveolar nerves
- lateral pterygoid nerves
- superior alveolar nerves
- vestibulocochlear nerves
- superior laryngeal nerves
- zygomaticotemporal nerves
- gotten on someone's nerves
- getting on someone's nerves
Words that rhyme with nerves
Questions about nerves
- What is nerves the plural of?
- Nerves is the plural of nerve.
- How do you pronounce nerves?
- Nerves is pronounced /nɝvz/ (US).
Words near nerves in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerves (page history and authors); nerve (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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