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trends

trends is the plural of trend.

trends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trend.

Meaning of trend

Noun

trend (plural trends)

  1. An inclination in a particular direction.
    • Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.
  2. A tendency.
    • There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
  3. A fad or fashion style.
    • Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.
  4. An innovation, or a development of innovations.
    • New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.
  5. A general development over distance.
    • The trend of the boundary goes around the mountains.
  6. A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points; the shift over time represented by such a curve on a graph.

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Phrases with trends

Questions about trends

What is trends the plural of?
Trends is the plural of trend.

Words near trends in the dictionary

  1. trendlets
  2. trendline
  3. trendlines
  4. trendoid
  5. trendoids
  6. trends
  7. trendsetter
  8. trendsetters
  9. trendsetting
  10. trendspotter
  11. trendspotters

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