banks

1. pluralplural of bank

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bank

plural Bankses · alternative Bangs

1. countableuncountableAn English toponymic surname for someone who lives near a hill or bank of land.

   Sir John being asked if he offered to put another name in his stead, he believes he did, and that Mr. Banks said, it might stand in his own name; he likewise said, he believed the colonel did not know it was the Company's stock, he having never told him it was, as he remembers.

   1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA town in Pike County, Alabama.
   2. countableuncountableA town in Bradley County, Arkansas.
   3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Boise County, Idaho.
   4. countableuncountableA township in Fayette County, Iowa.
   5. countableuncountableA township in Antrim County, Michigan.
   6. countableuncountableA city in Washington County, Oregon.
   7. countableuncountableA township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
   8. countableuncountableA township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
3. countableuncountableA suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
4. countableuncountableA small village in Burtholme parish, Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5664).
5. countableuncountableA large village in North Meols parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3920).
6. countableuncountableAn electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1. pluralplural of Bank