SHOES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoes mean? 

• SHOES (noun)
  The noun SHOES has 1 sense:

1. a particular situation

  Familiarity information: SHOES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

place; shoes

Context example:

If you were in my place what would you do?

Hypernyms ("shoes" is a kind of...):

position; situation (a condition or position in which you find yourself)

 Context examples 

My shoes were by this time in a woeful condition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I wish you had been made to run the soles off your shoes!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They often appear on feet where the bony parts of your feet rub against your shoes.

(Corns and Calluses, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Have you a pair of silent shoes?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Treatments for heel problems might include rest, medicines, exercises, taping, and special shoes.

(Heel Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

"It cannot be too early to commence the task I have to fulfil," thought I. I rose: I was dressed; for I had taken off nothing but my shoes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Poor Margaret Fraser will be at me for ever about your eyes and your teeth, and how you do your hair, and who makes your shoes.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I could change my shoes, you know, the moment I got home; and it is not the sort of thing that gives me cold.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)