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pilement

pilement noun: an accumulation; a heap.

Noun

pilement (plural pilements)

  1. (obsolete) An accumulation; a heap.
    • What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Forms of pilement

pluralpilements

Origin of pilement

From pile + -ment.

Questions about pilement

What does pilement mean?
Pilement means an accumulation; a heap.
What part of speech is pilement?
Pilement is a noun.
What is the plural of pilement?
The plural of pilement is pilements.

Words near pilement in the dictionary

  1. pileipelles
  2. pileipellis
  3. pilekiid
  4. pilekiids
  5. pileless
  6. pilement
  7. pilements
  8. Pileni
  9. pilenta
  10. pilentum
  11. pilentums

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