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weeds

UK/wiːdz/

weeds is the plural of weed.

weeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of weed.

Meaning of weed

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

  1. (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
    • If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
  2. (archaic, obsolete, uncountable) Underbrush; low shrubs.
    • one rushing forth out of the thickest weed1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4
  3. (informal, uncountable) Cannabis.
    • Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day1999, Dr. Dre, “The Next Episode”, in 2001
  4. (colloquial, uncountable) Tobacco.
  5. (colloquial, countable, obsolete) A cigar.
    • "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars."1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
  6. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

See all 20 meanings of weed

Noun

weeds pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Clothes.
    • Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the...1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III

Origin of weeds

Inflected form of weed.

From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).

Words formed from weeds

Phrases with weeds

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Words that rhyme with weeds

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Questions about weeds

What does weeds mean?
Weeds means clothes.
What is weeds the plural of?
Weeds is the plural of weed.
What part of speech is weeds?
Weeds is a noun.
How do you pronounce weeds?
Weeds is pronounced /wiːdz/ (UK).

Words near weeds in the dictionary

  1. weedouts
  2. Weedpatch
  3. weedproof
  4. weedrace
  5. weedraces
  6. weeds
  7. weeds out
  8. weedscape
  9. weedscapes
  10. weedsplain
  11. weedsplained

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