patterns
patterns is the plural of pattern.
patterns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pattern.
Meaning of pattern
Noun
pattern (plural patterns)
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- The wallpaper had a floral pattern.
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
- Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.1793 March 19, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana
- A copy.
- A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
- A representative example.
- The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
Phrases with patterns
- patterns up
- eye patterns
- Van patterns
- Airy patterns
- dark patterns
- fact patterns
- test patterns
- moiré patterns
- proxy patterns
- shawl patterns
- state patterns
- bridge patterns
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- design patterns
- facade patterns
- façade patterns
- module patterns
- notice patterns
- policy patterns
- social patterns
- Turing patterns
- adapter patterns
- builder patterns
- Chladni patterns
- command patterns
- factory patterns
- holding patterns
- thought patterns
- visitor patterns
- compound patterns
- iterator patterns
- multiton patterns
- strategy patterns
- composite patterns
- decorator patterns
- flyweight patterns
- messaging patterns
- prototype patterns
- singleton patterns
- behavioral patterns
- creational patterns
- durational patterns
- indulgency patterns
- structural patterns
- behavioural patterns
- candlestick patterns
- concurrency patterns
- diffraction patterns
- Kelvin wake patterns
- Lichtenberg patterns
- object pool patterns
- interference patterns
- architectural patterns
- class adapter patterns
- integumentary patterns
- morphological patterns
- Widmanstätten patterns
- factory method patterns
- object adapter patterns
- RNA expression patterns
- visitor design patterns
- Widmanstaetten patterns
- lexicosyntactic patterns
- template method patterns
- abstract factory patterns
- front controller patterns
- marker interface patterns
- chain-of-responsibility patterns
- curiously recurring template patterns
- General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns
Questions about patterns
- What is patterns the plural of?
- Patterns is the plural of pattern.
Words near patterns in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: patterns (page history and authors); pattern (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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