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sickbays

sickbays is the plural of sickbay.

Meaning of sickbay

Noun

sickbay (plural sickbays)

  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.
    • It was the piano lesson again—an orange-tiled floor, one high window, a new upright in a bare room close to the sickbay,2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 3

Questions about sickbays

What is sickbays the plural of?
Sickbays is the plural of sickbay.

Words near sickbays in the dictionary

  1. Sickafooses
  2. sickass
  3. sickbag
  4. sickbags
  5. sickbay
  6. sickbays
  7. sickbed
  8. sickbeds
  9. sicke
  10. sicked
  11. sicked up

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