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  • Tons can refer to:
  • Tons River, a major river in India
  • the plural of ton, a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power
  • short ton, 2,000 pounds, used in the United States
  • long ton, 2,240 pounds, used in countries such as United Kingdom which use the imperial system
  • metric ton, also known as tonne, 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds
  • slang: for many of something, "there were a ton of people at the party"
  • Tons (band), an American rock band
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    Definition of tons in English Dictionary

  • NounBFton
    1. plural of ton.
      1. (colloquial) A lot; a large quantity (of something).
        1. I have tons of pens, but none of them work.
        2. I love him tons.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • In 1999, they regilded the spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which now glitters with 53 tons of gold and 4,341 diamonds on the crowning orb.
        • I reckon it weighs about a ton by the weight of it if yer wanter know.
        • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Noun forms
          • Noun plural forms
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      1. fr tons
      2. en tonsil
      3. en tonsillitis
      4. en tonsor
      5. fr tonsure
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      Meaning of tons for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "tons" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form.
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