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vagues

vagues is the plural of vague.

vagues is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vague.

Meaning of vague

Noun

vague (plural vagues)

  1. An indefinite expanse.
    • The gray vague of unsympathizing sea / That dragged his fancy from her moorings back / To shores inhospitable of eldest time.1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...
  2. (obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
    • [T]he Scots had some leasure to plaie their vagues1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC

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Questions about vagues

What is vagues the plural of?
Vagues is the plural of vague.

Words near vagues in the dictionary

  1. vagueposting
  2. vagueposts
  3. vaguer
  4. vagueries
  5. vaguery
  6. vagues
  7. vaguest
  8. vaguing
  9. vaguish
  10. vaguities
  11. vaguity

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