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thumb indexes

thumb indexes is the plural of thumb index.

Meaning of thumb index

Noun

thumb index (plural thumb indexes)

  1. A series of alphabetically marked or otherwise labelled semicircular cut-outs in the fore edge of a large reference book, encyclopaedia, Bible, etc., that allows quick access to various parts of the text.

Questions about thumb indexes

What is thumb indexes the plural of?
Thumb indexes is the plural of thumb index.

Words near thumb indexes in the dictionary

  1. thumb drive
  2. thumb drives
  3. thumb fight
  4. thumb fights
  5. thumb index
  6. thumb indexes
  7. thumb knot
  8. thumb knots
  9. Thumb Master
  10. thumb on the scale
  11. thumb on the scales

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumb indexes (page history and authors); thumb index (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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