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oes

oes is the plural of oe.

oes is the plural of o.

Meaning of oe

Noun (1)

oe (plural oes)

  1. (literary, poetic, rare) A small island.
    • I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassy oe.1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...

Noun (2)

oe (plural oes)

  1. A grandchild.

See all 3 meanings of oe

Meaning of o

Noun

o (plural oes)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter O/o.
  2. A zero (used in reading out numbers).
    • It is currently two-o-five in the afternoon (2:05 PM).

See all 18 meanings of o

Noun (1)

oes pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Small circle-shaped sequins of precious metal sewn to clothing for decorative effect, popular in the 17th century.
    • The Colours, that shew best by Candlelight, are; White, Carnation, and a Kinde of Sea-Water-Greene; And Oes, or Spangs, as they are of no great Cost, so they are of most Glory.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: OES

OES

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Old East Slavic.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Order of the Eastern Star.

Noun (2) capitalized: Oes

Oes

  1. (plural) plural of O (instances of the vocative O).
    • The Fifteen Oes and Other Prayers […] The Oes constitute about a third of the book.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of oes.

Verb capitalized: OEs

OEs

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of OE

Forms of oes

Noun
alternative formowes
Proper noun
alternative formOES.

Questions about oes

What does oes mean?
Oes means small circle-shaped sequins of precious metal sewn to clothing for decorative effect, popular in the 17th century.
What is oes the plural of?
Oes is the plural of oe.
What part of speech is oes?
Oes can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.

Words near oes in the dictionary

  1. OER
  2. Oerlikon
  3. Oerlikons
  4. oersted
  5. oersteds
  6. oes
  7. OES.
  8. Oesch
  9. Oesches
  10. Oesling
  11. oesophag-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oes (page history and authors); OES (page history and authors); Oes (page history and authors); OEs (page history and authors); oe (page history and authors); o (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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