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tems

tems is the alternative form of temse.

Meaning of temse

Noun

temse (plural temses)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A sieve.
    • Stone your apricots , coddle them , and rub them through a temse1777, Elizabeth Marshall, The Young Ladies' Guide in the Art of Cookery

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Noun capitalized: TEMs

TEMs

  1. (plural) plural of TEM

Questions about tems

What is tems the alternative form of?
Tems is the alternative form of temse.
What part of speech is tems?
Tems is a noun.

Words near tems in the dictionary

  1. tempuras
  2. tempus fugit
  3. Tempy
  4. Tempyo
  5. Temryuk Bay
  6. tems
  7. temsavir
  8. temse
  9. temse bread
  10. temse breads
  11. temse loaf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tems (page history and authors); TEMs (page history and authors); temse (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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