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soap bubbles

soap bubbles is the plural of soap bubble.

Meaning of soap bubble

Noun

soap bubble (plural soap bubbles)

  1. A very thin film of soapy water that forms a sphere with an iridescent surface.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that is attractive but insubstantial.
    • These words so pierce this soap-bubble of the metaphysicians, that we can hardly read them without fancying that the poet meant them to be ironical.1879, John Campbell Shairp, Robert Burns, London: Macmillan

Questions about soap bubbles

What is soap bubbles the plural of?
Soap bubbles is the plural of soap bubble.

Words near soap bubbles in the dictionary

  1. soap boxes
  2. soap boy
  3. soap brick
  4. soap bricks
  5. soap bubble
  6. soap bubbles
  7. soap dish
  8. soap dishes
  9. soap dispenser
  10. soap dispensers
  11. soap dodger

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