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stopes

stopes is the plural of stope.

Meaning of stope

Noun

stope (plural stopes)

  1. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
    • The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 318

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Proper noun capitalized: Stopes

Stopes

  1. A surname.

Questions about stopes

What does stopes mean?
Stopes means a surname.
What is stopes the plural of?
Stopes is the plural of stope.
What part of speech is stopes?
Stopes is a proper noun.

Words near stopes in the dictionary

  1. stoped
  2. stoper
  3. stoperator
  4. stoperators
  5. stopers
  6. stopes
  7. Stopford
  8. Stopfordian
  9. Stopfordians
  10. Stopfords
  11. stopgap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopes (page history and authors); Stopes (page history and authors); stope (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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