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sones

sones is the plural of sone.

Meaning of sone

Noun

sone (plural sones)

  1. (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing

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Proper noun capitalized: Sones

Sones (plural Soneses)

  1. A surname.

Noun (1) capitalized: Sones

Sones

  1. (plural) plural of Sone

Noun (2) capitalized: SONEs

SONEs

  1. (plural) plural of SONE

Forms of sones

pluralSoneses

Origin of sones

Patronymic from Son.

Questions about sones

What does sones mean?
Sones means a surname.
What is sones the plural of?
Sones is the plural of sone.
What part of speech is sones?
Sones can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near sones in the dictionary

  1. sonepcizumab
  2. sonepiprazole
  3. Sonequa
  4. sonero
  5. soneros
  6. sones
  7. Soneses
  8. SONET
  9. sonfucker
  10. sonfuckers
  11. song

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sones (page history and authors); Sones (page history and authors); SONEs (page history and authors); sone (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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