kites

Meaning of kites

plural noun
  1. a toy consisting of a light frame with thin material stretched over it, flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
  2. a medium to large long-winged bird of prey which typically has a forked tail and frequently soars on updraughts of air.
  3. a fraudulent cheque, bill, or receipt.
  4. a quadrilateral figure having two pairs of equal adjacent sides, symmetrical only about one diagonal.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. fly a kite.
    while I kited, she would always watch out for me
  2. write or use (a cheque, bill, or receipt) fraudulently.

Old English cȳta (in kite (sense 2 of the noun)); probably of imitative origin and related to German Kauz ‘screech owl’. The toy was so named because it hovers in the air like the bird.

Information about kites

  • The singular form of kites is: kite.
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Hyphenation of kites

kites

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • kites is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of kites

keist, siket, skite, tikes

Words that rhyme with kites

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