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quilts

quilts is the plural of quilt.

quilts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quilt.

Meaning of quilt

Noun

quilt (plural quilts)

  1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
    • My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
  2. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
  3. A quilted skirt worn by women.
  4. (figuratively) Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
    • Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12

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Phrases with quilts

Questions about quilts

What is quilts the plural of?
Quilts is the plural of quilt.

Words near quilts in the dictionary

  1. quiltings
  2. quiltlike
  3. quiltmaker
  4. quiltmakers
  5. quiltmaking
  6. quilts
  7. quilty
  8. Quiltys
  9. quim
  10. Quimalabasa Norte
  11. Quimalabasa Sur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quilts (page history and authors); quilt (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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