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sykes

/saɪks/

sykes is the plural of syke.

Meaning of syke

Noun

syke (plural sykes)

  1. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure; a fountain.

Proper noun capitalized: Sykes

Sykes (countable and uncountable, plural Sykeses)

  1. A hamlet in Bowland Forest High parish, Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6351).
  2. A habitational surname from Middle English.

Forms of sykes

pluralSykeses

Origin of sykes

From Middle English sike (“marshy stream, gutter, ditch”).

Words formed from sykes

Questions about sykes

What does sykes mean?
Sykes means a hamlet in Bowland Forest High parish, Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6351).
What is sykes the plural of?
Sykes is the plural of syke.
What part of speech is sykes?
Sykes is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sykes?
Sykes is pronounced /saɪks/.

Words near sykes in the dictionary

  1. Syifa
  2. Syilx
  3. sying
  4. syke
  5. Sykehouse
  6. sykes
  7. Sykes' monkey
  8. Sykes's warbler
  9. Sykes's warblers
  10. Sykeses
  11. Sykesville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sykes (page history and authors); Sykes (page history and authors); syke (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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