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rathers

rathers is the plural of rather.

rathers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rather.

Meaning of rather

Noun

rather (plural rathers)

  1. (dated, informal, uncommon) A choice or a preference.
    • If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-1973, Chester B. Himes, Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings, page 46

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Proper noun capitalized: Rathers

Rathers

  1. (plural) plural of Rather

Questions about rathers

What is rathers the plural of?
Rathers is the plural of rather.
What part of speech is rathers?
Rathers is a proper noun.

Words near rathers in the dictionary

  1. ratheripe
  2. ratheripes
  3. ratherish
  4. Ratherism
  5. Ratherisms
  6. rathers
  7. Rathes
  8. rathest
  9. Rathgeber
  10. Rathgebers
  11. rathite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rathers (page history and authors); Rathers (page history and authors); rather (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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