sands

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of sand
  2. sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
  3. (figurative) a unit of time.
    The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.
  4. (figurative) a desert
    We were lost in the sands of Arabia.

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sand

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