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surfers

surfers is the plural of surfer.

Meaning of surfer

Noun

surfer (plural surfers)

  1. A person who rides a surfboard.
    • When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]1965, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28
  2. A person who surfs the Internet.
  3. (obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).

Proper noun capitalized: Surfers

Surfers

  1. (Australia, slang, chiefly Queensland) Surfers Paradise (a suburb of the Gold Coast)

Phrases with surfers

Questions about surfers

What does surfers mean?
Surfers means surfers Paradise (a suburb of the Gold Coast).
What is surfers the plural of?
Surfers is the plural of surfer.
What part of speech is surfers?
Surfers is a proper noun.

Words near surfers in the dictionary

  1. surfer
  2. surfer's ear
  3. surfer's knob
  4. surfer's knot
  5. surferish
  6. surfers
  7. surffish
  8. surffishes
  9. surfgrass
  10. surfgrasses
  11. surficial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surfers (page history and authors); Surfers (page history and authors); surfer (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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