sands
sands noun: sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which. Also the plural of sand.
Noun
sands
- sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
- a unit of time.
- The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.
- an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.
- We were lost in the sands of Arabia.
- Most of the old fishermen's cottages have been unobtrusively modernised, the harbour is busy with summer yachts, and the sands are superb.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 140, about Cruden Bay
Proper noun capitalized: Sands
Sands
- A surname.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
- A western suburb and ward in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8393).
Also used as
sands is also the plural of sand.
sands is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of sand.
sands meaning in Tamil and Kannada
sands in Tamil
- மணல்கள்
sands in Kannada
- ಮರಳುಗಳು
Words formed from sands
Phrases with sands
- oil sands
- sands off
- tar sands
- wet sands
- gold sands
- iron sands
- sands down
- black sands
- cover sands
- green sands
- sharp sands
- White Sands
26 more phrasesFewer phrases
- desert sands
- Maplin Sands
- Verona Sands
- Woburn Sands
- Dolphin Sands
- Goodwin Sands
- molding sands
- singing sands
- Burgh by Sands
- Halimeda sands
- plow the sands
- Primrose Sands
- titanium sands
- plows the sands
- bituminous sands
- plough the sands
- plowed the sands
- ploughs the sands
- plowing the sands
- ploughed the sands
- Athabasca oil sands
- Athabasca tar sands
- ploughing the sands
- Lancashire over the sands
- footprints in the sands of time
- footprints on the sands of time
Questions about sands
- What does sands mean?
- Sands means sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which.
- What is sands in Tamil?
- Sands in Tamil is மணல்கள். See Sands meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sands?
- Sands can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near sands in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sands (page history and authors); Sands (page history and authors); sands (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sands (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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