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shallows

shallows is the plural of shallow.

shallows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shallow.

Meaning of shallow

Noun

shallow (plural shallows)

  1. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
    • The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
  2. A fish, the rudd.
  3. (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
    • You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.1871, Belgravia, volume 14, page 213
  4. (slang) A shallow hotel pan.
    • Coordinate term: deep

See all 14 meanings of shallow

Noun

shallows pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
    • You'll have to navigate carefully through these shallows.

Proper noun capitalized: Shallows

Shallows

  1. (plural) plural of Shallow

Questions about shallows

What does shallows mean?
Shallows means an area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
What is shallows the plural of?
Shallows is the plural of shallow.
What part of speech is shallows?
Shallows can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near shallows in the dictionary

  1. shallowly
  2. shallowness
  3. shallownesses
  4. shallowpate
  5. shallowpates
  6. shallows
  7. shalm
  8. shalmali
  9. shalms
  10. shalom
  11. shalom aleichem

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shallows (page history and authors); Shallows (page history and authors); shallow (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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