"singles" meaning in English

See singles in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: en-au-singles.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} singles (not comparable)
  1. Of or pertaining to unmarried people. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-singles-en-adj-aMMEJvAy

Noun

Audio: en-au-singles.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} singles
  1. plural of single Tags: form-of, plural Form of: single
    Sense id: en-singles-en-noun-NyYKzDD2

Noun

Audio: en-au-singles.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} singles
  1. (sports, plural only) a game between individual players Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Sports Translations (sports: game between two individuals): individuals [masculine, plural] (Catalan), dvouhra [feminine] (Czech), kaksinpeli (Finnish), egyes (Hungarian), cluiche singil [masculine] (Irish), cluiche dólámhach [masculine] (Irish), tokorua (Maori), singel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), single [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), singel [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), single [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), singel [masculine] (Polish), singiel [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-singles-en-noun-qxUPX-s3 Categories (other): English pluralia tantum Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports: game between two individuals': 71 29
  2. (cycling, Australia) Synonym of tubulars Tags: Australia Categories (topical): Cycling Synonyms: tubulars [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-singles-en-noun-L6kSQgXJ Categories (other): Australian English Topics: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: singles net, singles stick Coordinate_terms: doubles, mixed doubles

Verb

Audio: en-au-singles.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} singles
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of single Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: single
    Sense id: en-singles-en-verb-JbU93JQG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 24 32 42

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.