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wheelchairs

wheelchairs is the plural of wheelchair.

wheelchairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wheelchair.

Meaning of wheelchair

Noun

wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)

  1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
    • "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9
  2. (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
  3. (broadly) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a nonhuman animal with locomotion.
    • To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot

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Questions about wheelchairs

What is wheelchairs the plural of?
Wheelchairs is the plural of wheelchair.

Words near wheelchairs in the dictionary

  1. wheelchair-user
  2. wheelchair-users
  3. wheelchairbound
  4. wheelchaired
  5. wheelchairing
  6. wheelchairs
  7. wheelclamping
  8. wheelcraft
  9. Wheeldon
  10. Wheeldons
  11. wheeled

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