noun
1. a large number or amount
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made lots of new friends
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she amassed stacks of newspapers
• Syn:
↑tons, ↑dozens, ↑heaps, ↑lots, ↑piles, ↑scores, ↑loads, ↑rafts, ↑slews, ↑wads, ↑oodles, ↑gobs, ↑scads, ↑lashings
• Hypernyms: ↑large indefinite quantity, ↑large indefinite amount
2. storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored
• Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form
• Hypernyms: ↑storage space
• Part Holonyms: ↑library, ↑depository library
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stacks
A kind of hide-and-seek
● bogle
Useful english dictionary. 2012.