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wais

wais is the plural of wai.

Meaning of wai

Noun

wai (plural wais)

  1. A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.

See all 2 meanings of wai

Proper noun (1) capitalized: WAIS

WAIS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
    • Total loss of the WAIS would cause 5 metres of sea level rise.2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.
    • Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Wais

Wais

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Veys (“city in Iran”).

Questions about wais

What is wais the plural of?
Wais is the plural of wai.
What part of speech is wais?
Wais is a proper noun.

Words near wais in the dictionary

  1. Wairoa
  2. Wairokpam
  3. wairs
  4. wairua
  5. wairuas
  6. wais
  7. Waisanen
  8. Waisanens
  9. Waisara
  10. waishengren
  11. waist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wais (page history and authors); WAIS (page history and authors); Wais (page history and authors); wai (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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