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squares

squares is the plural of square.

squares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of square.

Meaning of square

Noun

square (plural squares)

  1. A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
    • I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.1927, Kazimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World
  2. A cell in a grid.
    • You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
  3. A square piece, part, or surface.
    • a square of glass
  4. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
  5. (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
  6. A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

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Proper noun capitalized: Squares

Squares

  1. (plural) plural of Square

Phrases with squares

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Words that rhyme with squares

26 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about squares

What is squares the plural of?
Squares is the plural of square.
What part of speech is squares?
Squares is a proper noun.

Words near squares in the dictionary

  1. squareneck
  2. squareness
  3. squarenesses
  4. squarer
  5. squarers
  6. squares
  7. squares around
  8. squares away
  9. squares of opposition
  10. squares off
  11. squares the circle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squares (page history and authors); Squares (page history and authors); square (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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