sands
noun1
plural of sand
2
sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
3
Figuratively a unit of time.
- The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.
4
Figuratively an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.
- We were lost in the sands of Arabia.
- Most of the old fishermen's cottages have been unobtrusively modernised, the harbour is busy with summer yachts, and the sands are superb.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 140, about Cruden Bay:
- Derived terms
- sands of time