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Plural of airway

regular plural

The plural of airway is airways.

Forms of airway

Singularairway /ˈɛə.weɪ/
Pluralairways
Countablecountable

Airways in a sentence

  • The burners on gas stoves release pollutants including nitrogen dioxide, a key element in smog that can irritate airways and may contribute to the development of asthma, according to the U.S.2024 May 23, Michael Copley, “A lawsuit accuses a gas stove manufacturer of failing to warn consumers about pollution risks”, in NPR
  • Any remaining sputum fraction was cryobanked for future metagenomic studies to examine bacterial colonisation of the airways.2015 July 14, Leon M. Straker et al., “Rationale, design and methods for the 22 year follow-up of the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort…. From the entry cryobanked
  • We treated firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation, giving them oxygen to breathe and albuterol mist to help open their airways.2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry treat
  • The patient was successfully treated with the placement of a metallic tracheal stent following a Nd-Yag laser-assisted disobstruction of central airways.2015, Raffaele Scala et al., “Amyloidosis involving the respiratory system: 5-year's experience of a multi-disciplinary group's activity”…. From the entry disobstruction
  • Buteyko believed that teaching people with asthma to underbreathe could raise their carbon dioxide levels and dilate their airways without medication.2014, Sarah Brewer, Overcoming Asthma: The Complete Complementary Health Program, →ISBN. From the entry underbreathe

Meaning of airway

  1. noun The trachea.
  2. noun The trachea and bronchial tree.
  3. noun A flight path used by aeroplanes.

Full definition of airway

Questions about the plural of airway

What is the plural of airway?
The plural of airway is airways.
Is airway countable?
Airway is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airway (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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