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seles

seles is the plural of sele.

Meaning of sele

Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Happiness, fortune.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
  3. Greeting, salutation.
    • I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013

Proper noun capitalized: Seles

Seles (plural Seleses or Seles)

  1. A surname from Hungarian.

Forms of seles

pluralSeleses
pluralSeles
alternative formSzeles
alternative formSzéles
alternative formSeleš
alternative formZeles

Origin of seles

From Serbo-Croatian Seleš/Ceлeш, from Hungarian Széles.

Questions about seles

What does seles mean?
Seles means a surname from Hungarian.
What is seles the plural of?
Seles is the plural of sele.
What part of speech is seles?
Seles is a proper noun.

Words near seles in the dictionary

  1. selenylations
  2. selenyls
  3. selenylsulfide
  4. selenylsulfides
  5. selepressin
  6. seles
  7. Selestewa
  8. seletracetam
  9. Seleucia
  10. Seleucia on the Tigris
  11. Seleucia-on-Tigris

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