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telnets

telnets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of telnet.

Meaning of telnet

Verb

telnet (third-person singular simple present telnets, present participle telnetting or telneting, simple past and past participle telnetted or telneted)

  1. (intransitive) To use such a program to make such a connection.
    • I've been running tin with nano in Terminal in my Mac since 2003, and before then, by telnetting in to my university's server, which I first started doing as a first year undergrad in September 1993.2014 February 8, Király, “Newsreaders”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

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Questions about telnets

What is telnets the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Telnets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of telnet.

Words near telnets in the dictionary

  1. Telmun
  2. telnet
  3. telnetable
  4. telneted
  5. telneting
  6. telnets
  7. telnettable
  8. telnetted
  9. telnetting
  10. telnyashka
  11. telnyashkas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telnets (page history and authors); telnet (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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