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AMBAGES

Dictionary entry overview: What does ambages mean?

• AMBAGES (noun)
The noun AMBAGES has 1 sense:

1. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

Familiarity information: AMBAGES used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMBAGES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ambages" is a kind of...):

path; way; way of life (a course of conduct)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

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