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Plural of actress

regular plural

The plural of actress is actresses.

Forms of actress

Singularactress /ˈæk.tɹɪs/
Pluralactresses
Countablecountable

Actresses in a sentence

  • Theda Bara, born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was one of the most popular actresses of the silent-film era.From the entry Theodosia
  • DeMille never asked his actresses to pose for purposeless leg art.2013, Brett Kiser, The Pin-Up Girls of World War II. From the entry leg art
  • Streep, one of the few actresses who refuses to hire a stylist, was in on the joke.2007 February 26, Eric Wilson, “Red Carpet Recycling: Who Said Knockoff?”, in New York Times. From the entry radzimire
  • In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry.1983, Chad Evans, “The Road to British Columbia”, in Frontier Theatre: A History of Nineteenth-century Theatrical Entertainment in the…. From the entry endearing
  • 'Lind Arden was a great genius, one of the greatest tragic actresses in the world.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 6, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 118. From the entry touch

Meaning of actress

  1. noun A female who performs on the stage or in films.
  2. noun A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

Full definition of actress

Questions about the plural of actress

What is the plural of actress?
The plural of actress is actresses.
Is actress countable?
Actress is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: actress (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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