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texts

/tɛksts/

texts is the plural of text.

texts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of text.

Meaning of text

Noun

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)

  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. (broadly) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  4. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
    Antonyms:
    binary
  5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
    Synonyms:
    topic, theme
  6. A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
    • German text
    Synonyms:
    text hand

See all 9 meanings of text

Phrases with texts

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Questions about texts

What is texts the plural of?
Texts is the plural of text.
How do you pronounce texts?
Texts is pronounced /tɛksts/.

Words near texts in the dictionary

  1. textphone
  2. textphones
  3. textpost
  4. textposts
  5. textrine
  6. texts
  7. textshop
  8. textshops
  9. textspeak
  10. textual
  11. textual critic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: texts (page history and authors); text (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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