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shappe

shappe is the obsolete spelling of shape.

Meaning of shape

Noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

  1. The status or condition of something
    • The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
  2. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
    • The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
  3. A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
    • What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
  4. Form; formation.
    • Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.
  5. A geometric figure defined by its surfaces, lines, and angles, existing in 2D or 3D
  6. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

See all 16 meanings of shape

Questions about shappe

What is shappe the obsolete spelling of?
Shappe is the obsolete spelling of shape.

Words near shappe in the dictionary

  1. shapoos
  2. Shapotou
  3. Shapoval
  4. Shapovalov
  5. Shapovalova
  6. shappe
  7. Shappell
  8. Shappells
  9. Shapps
  10. shaps
  11. shapt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shappe (page history and authors); shape (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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