Meaning

3 senses
  1. Sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which

  2. (figuratively)A unit of time.

    The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.

  3. (figuratively)An expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.

    We were lost in the sands of Arabia.

More definitions
  • the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean

Forms

plural: sandses
Singularsands
Pluralsandses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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