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From Old French baie, from Latin baca.

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Singular
bay

Plural
bays

bay (plural bays)

  1. (obsolete) A berry.
  2. A shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
  3. The leaf of this shrub, used as a herb.

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From French baie, from Late Latin baia.

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Singular
bay

Plural
bays

bay (plural bays)

  1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.

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  • (body of water): gulf

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From French baie, from Old French baée, from baer, from Latin badare ‘to be open’.

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Singular
bay

Plural
bays

bay (plural bays)

  1. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
  2. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
  3. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
  4. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
  5. (rail transport) A bay platform.
  6. shortened form of bay window.

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From Old French bay, combined with apheticised form of abay; verbal form Old French bayer, abayer.

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Singular
bay

Plural
bays

bay (plural bays)

  1. The excited barking of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
  2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

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Infinitive
to bay

Third person singular
bays

Simple past
bayed

Past participle
bayed

Present participle
baying

to bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

  1. (intransitive) To bark.
  2. (transitive) To bark at.
  3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

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From French baie, from Latin badius.

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bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

Positive
bay

Comparative
more bay

Superlative
most bay

  1. (color/colour) Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

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Singular
bay

Plural
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bay (uncountable)

  1. (color/colour) A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
    bay colour:    

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bay

  1. rich

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bay

  1. sir
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