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Princeton's WordNet

  1. singlesnoun

    badminton played with one person on each side

  2. singlesnoun

    tennis played with one person on each side

GCIDE

  1. singlesadjective

    For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons; as, a singles bar; a singles party.

Wiktionary

  1. singlesnoun

    a game between individual players

  2. singlesadjective

    Of or pertaining to unmarried people.

    a singles bar

ChatGPT

  1. singles

    In a broad sense, singles can refer to: 1) Unmarried or unattached individuals. 2) Individual songs released separately from an album by a music artist for radio play and commercial sale. 3) A category in sports, especially racquet games where a game is played one-on-one, such as Tennis. 4) Single units of something, like a single room or a single ticket. 5) In finance, a single is a bet on one selection in one event. Your selection must be successful to have a return. The precise definition can vary depending on the context where the term is being used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Singles

    see Single, n., 2

Wikidata

  1. Singles

    Singles is a 1992 American romantic comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe. The film stars Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon.

Rap Dictionary

  1. singlesnoun

    Single Track (for Promotion).

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SINGLES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Singles is ranked #104156 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Singles surname appeared 172 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Singles.

    95.3% or 164 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of singles in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of singles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of singles in a Sentence

  1. David Haggerty:

    We know how successful the Hopman Cup was last year with Serena playing for the United States and Roger Federer representing Switzerland, when they played the mixed doubles it filled the stadium with over 15,000 fans. Any tournament would love to have that even for their singles final.

  2. Marcus Stroman:

    I don’t dwell on any of them, but it was eight singles, balls that were hit in holes, it was just one of those starts that could have went either way.

  3. International Tennis Federation:

    These amendments reduce concerns of overplay for players who reach the latter stages of all three events — singles, doubles and mixed doubles.

  4. Michael Mmoh:

    I don’t know if I’m going to finally wake up or something. It just doesn’t seem real, the past 48 hours has been a complete whirlwind from going from being ready to go back home, booking a flight, packing my bags. I was supposed to leave yesterday. Andy Murray of Great Britain reacts during the change over in their round two singles match against Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia during day four of the 2023 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 19, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Andy Murray left fuming as hes not allowed to use toilet during five-set marathon at Australian Open.

  5. Thi Bui:

    Every year, we survey and interview singles, and every year, we find the same recurring theme : single parents are having a hard time dating, they felt stigmatized in the dating world, like it is a turn-off to disclose they have children. We also saw that single parents naturally gravitate towards other single parents because they didn't have to explain their constraints as they were in the same stage of life.

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