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thickets

thickets is the plural of thicket.

Meaning of thicket

Noun

thicket (plural thickets)

  1. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
    • Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 18, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
  2. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
    • He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
  3. (figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

Phrases with thickets

Questions about thickets

What is thickets the plural of?
Thickets is the plural of thicket.

Words near thickets in the dictionary

  1. thicketbirds
  2. thicketed
  3. thicketful
  4. thicketfuls
  5. thicketization
  6. thickets
  7. thicketsful
  8. thickety
  9. thickflowing
  10. thickhead
  11. thickheaded

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