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Ashes

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • Australia

the Ashes

proper noun

  1. 1

    the Ashes

    The superlatives have been 'wrung dry to describe' that tumultuous heart-warming welcome in Sydney and beyond, the kind of picture we needed to stir us from such melancholy contemplations as our cricketers' fall from Ashes glory in the West Indies.

    My Ashes experiences have led to lifelong friendships with numerous Australians as well as England team-mates.

  2. 2

    Also a form of Ashplural of Ash

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).