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pubs

/pʌbz/

pubs is the plural of pub.

pubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pub.

Meaning of pub

Noun (1)

pub (plural pubs)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
    • Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Noun (2)

pub (plural pubs)

  1. (slang) A public server.
    • Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers, you're an ^([sic]) tool and have no right to complain about cheaters.”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet)

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Noun capitalized: PUBS

PUBS (countable and uncountable, plural PUBS)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (“the removal of blood from an umbilical cord in utero for testing”).
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of purple urine bag syndrome.

Synonyms of pubs

Forms of pubs

pluralPUBS

Phrases with pubs

Words that rhyme with pubs

Questions about pubs

What is pubs the plural of?
Pubs is the plural of pub.
What part of speech is pubs?
Pubs is a noun.
How do you pronounce pubs?
Pubs is pronounced /pʌbz/.
What is the plural of pubs?
The plural of pubs is PUBS.

Words near pubs in the dictionary

  1. pubovaginal
  2. pubovaginalis
  3. pubovesical
  4. pubovisceral
  5. PUBPAT
  6. pubs
  7. pubs.
  8. pubstomp
  9. pubstomped
  10. pubstomper
  11. pubstompers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pubs (page history and authors); PUBS (page history and authors); pub (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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