doubles

See also: Doubles, doublés, Doublés, double s, double S, and double-s

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

doubles

1. plural of double

Noun

doubles

1. (sports, plural only) A game between pairs of players.

   Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles.

   • 2011 March 8, Homa Khaleeli, “Martina Navratilova”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 July 2017:

     The most famous female tennis player of all time, Navratilova powered through 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record nine Wimbledon singles victories, and 31 doubles titles.

2. (campanology, plural only) Bell changes rung on five bells.

   A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.

3. A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.

Derived terms

• American doubles
• Australian doubles
• Canadian doubles
• doubles net
• mixed doubles

Descendants

• → Japanese: ダブルス (daburusu)

Translations

a game between pairs of players

• Catalan: dobles (ca) m pl
• Czech: čtyřhra f
• Finnish: nelinpeli
• Hungarian: páros (hu)
• Irish: cluiche dúbailte m
• Japanese: ダブルス (ja) (daburusu)
• Korean: 복식(複式) (ko) (boksik)
• Māori: tokowhā, pirirua, takirua
• Polish: debel (pl) m

Verb

doubles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of double

   The population doubles every ten minutes.

Anagrams

• bloused, bolused, dobules

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dubl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

doubles

1. plural of double

Noun

doubles m

1. plural of double

Verb

doubles

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of doubler