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pound signs

pound signs is the plural of pound sign.

Meaning of pound sign

Noun

pound sign (plural pound signs)

  1. The symbol £, representing the pound sterling.
  2. (US) The symbol # on a telephone.
  3. (US) The symbol #, denoting weight in pounds.
    • A bag of peanuts is marked "5^#".

Questions about pound signs

What is pound signs the plural of?
Pound signs is the plural of pound sign.

Words near pound signs in the dictionary

  1. pound sand into a rathole
  2. pound Scots
  3. pound shop
  4. pound shops
  5. pound sign
  6. pound signs
  7. pound sterling
  8. pound the pavement
  9. pound the table
  10. pound town
  11. pound-foolish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pound signs (page history and authors); pound sign (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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