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tweets

tweets is the plural of tweet.

tweets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tweet.

Meaning of tweet

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
    • [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104
  2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
    • Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune
  3. (broadly, social media) An entry on any microblogging service.
    • He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN

See all 8 meanings of tweet

Proper noun capitalized: Tweets

Tweets

  1. (plural) plural of Tweet

Noun capitalized: Tweets

Tweets

  1. (plural) plural of Tweet

Verb capitalized: Tweets

Tweets

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of Tweet

Phrases with tweets

Questions about tweets

What is tweets the plural of?
Tweets is the plural of tweet.
What part of speech is tweets?
Tweets can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.

Words near tweets in the dictionary

  1. tweethearts
  2. tweeting
  3. tweetings
  4. tweetless
  5. tweetosphere
  6. tweets
  7. tweetstorm
  8. tweetstorms
  9. tweetup
  10. tweetups
  11. tweetworthy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tweets (page history and authors); Tweets (page history and authors); tweet (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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