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virgates

virgates is the plural of virgate.

Meaning of virgate

Noun

virgate (plural virgates)

  1. (historical) The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¹⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

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Questions about virgates

What is virgates the plural of?
Virgates is the plural of virgate.

Words near virgates in the dictionary

  1. virgate
  2. virgated
  3. virgately
  4. virgater
  5. virgaters
  6. virgates
  7. virgatosphinctin
  8. virgatosphinctins
  9. virgatotome
  10. virgavirus
  11. virgaviruses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: virgates (page history and authors); virgate (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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