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wats

wats is the plural of wat.

Meaning of wat

Noun (1)

wat (plural wats)

  1. A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
    • There are two wats near this village.

Noun (2)

wat

  1. A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
    • In Ethiopia, a volcanic pepper and spice seasoning, berbere, is widely used, and the stews called wats are eaten with a spongy flat bread, injera.[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Noun capitalized: WATS

WATS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wide Area Telephone Service.

Questions about wats

What is wats the plural of?
Wats is the plural of wat.
What part of speech is wats?
Wats is a noun.

Words near wats in the dictionary

  1. Watremez
  2. Watroba
  3. Watrobas
  4. Watrous
  5. watry
  6. wats
  7. watsan
  8. Watsana
  9. Watseka
  10. Watson
  11. Watson Island

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