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pretas

pretas is the plural of preta.

Meaning of preta

Noun

preta (plural pretas)

  1. A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)

Questions about pretas

What is pretas the plural of?
Pretas is the plural of preta.

Words near pretas in the dictionary

  1. pretargeting
  2. pretariff
  3. pretarsal
  4. pretarsi
  5. pretarsus
  6. pretas
  7. pretask
  8. pretassel
  9. pretaste
  10. pretasted
  11. pretastes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretas (page history and authors); preta (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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