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wasps

wasps is the plural of wasp.

wasps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wasp.

Meaning of wasp

Noun

wasp (plural wasps)

  1. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
  2. Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
    1. Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
  3. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.

See all 5 meanings of wasp

Noun (1) capitalized: WASPs

WASPs

  1. (plural) plural of WASP

Noun (2) capitalized: Wasps

Wasps

  1. (plural) plural of Wasp

Phrases with wasps

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Questions about wasps

What is wasps the plural of?
Wasps is the plural of wasp.
What part of speech is wasps?
Wasps is a noun.

Words near wasps in the dictionary

  1. waspless
  2. wasplike
  3. waspling
  4. wasplings
  5. waspnest
  6. wasps
  7. wasps around
  8. Wasps Nest
  9. waspwaisted
  10. waspy
  11. Wasrael

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wasps (page history and authors); WASPs (page history and authors); Wasps (page history and authors); wasp (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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