Definition of Shoes

1. Noun. A particular situation. "If you were in my place what would you do?"

Exact synonyms: Place
Generic synonyms: Position, Situation
Derivative terms: Place

Definition of Shoes

1. Noun. (plural of shoe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shoes

1. shoe [n] - See also: shoe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoes

shoemaker
shoemaker's last
shoemakers
shoemaking
shoepac
shoepack
shoepacks
shoepacs
shoepeg
shoepeg corn
shoepegs
shoeprint
shoeprints
shoer
shoers
shoes (current term)
shoeshine
shoeshine boy
shoeshine boys
shoeshiner
shoeshiners
shoeshines
shoeshop
shoeshops
shoesmith
shoesmiths
shoestring
shoestring catch
shoestring catches
shoestring fungus

Literary usage of Shoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Except the making of high grade custom work, or in the repair (cobbling) of boots and shoes, the shoemaker is today supplanted by machine methods. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Three days after the car breaking and larceny aforesaid several boxes of the stolen shoes, with the name of the consignees stated In the indictment ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"nected with them, and the shoes or hoes will then stand in a zigzag line across the machine, as shown by the full lines, or in what may be termed two lines, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Further than this we have in Xenophon's Je Re iï/iu'stri not only the argument of his silence about shoes, but also the fact that he gives (ch. ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Thus, only alternate shoes are shifted, but the positions of the toes of the ... The shoes are so set that their toes are never in a straight line across, ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Still with the fore part of my feet in those shoes," was the answer. ... I now put on my own shoes, saw that there was no one in eight, crossed the high ..."

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