quires
Meaning of quires
- One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
- A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
- A book, poem, or pamphlet.
verb
To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
noun- A choir.
- One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
verb
To sing in concert.
Information about quires
- The singular form of quires is: quire.
- Languages in which quires is used:
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Hyphenation of quires
quires
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- quires is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of quires
Words that rhyme with quires
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