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pats

/pæts/

pats is the plural of pat.

pats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pat.

Meaning of pat

Noun

pat (plural pats)

  1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.
    • We heard a pat on the door.
  2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.
    • Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
  3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
    • It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 45, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Pats

Pats

  1. (plural) plural of Pat

Noun (1) capitalized: Pats

Pats

  1. (plural) plural of Pat

Noun (2) capitalized: PATs

PATs pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) plural of PAT

Phrases with pats

Words that rhyme with pats

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Questions about pats

What is pats the plural of?
Pats is the plural of pat.
What part of speech is pats?
Pats can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce pats?
Pats is pronounced /pæts/.

Words near pats in the dictionary

  1. patroonry
  2. patroons
  3. patroonship
  4. patroonships
  5. Patrylo
  6. pats
  7. pats down
  8. pats on the back
  9. pats-on-the-back
  10. Patschke
  11. Patshaling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pats (page history and authors); Pats (page history and authors); PATs (page history and authors); pat (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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