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Plural of ape

regular plural

The plural of ape is apes.

Forms of ape

Singularape /eɪp/
Pluralapes /eɪps/
Countablecountable

Apes in a sentence

  • But in all likelihood the meme-stock phenomenon is here to stay--even if Cohen and his ilk are profiting off the backs of the "apes" who support them.2022 September 12, Ryan Cohen, “The Money Game: Jen Wieczner”, in New York, volume 55, number 19, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, pages 14-15
  • The argument that apes were incompetent investors was particularly reliant on one term: loss porn.2024 May, Linea Munk Petersen, “Everything you need to know about WallStreetBets: An explainer of the online forum behind the GameStop...
  • Humans share common ancestors with other apes.From the entry human
  • Please don’t bid or pay for these stolen apes,” he wrote on Twitter.2021 November 3, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Man Upset That Hackers Stole His Bored Ape NFTs”, in VICE, archived from the original on…. From the entry pfp
  • Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4. From the entry habiline

Meaning of ape

  1. noun An anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
  2. noun A Hominoidea primate other than a human.
  3. noun An unintelligent or unsophisticated person, especially one who behaves irrationally or in an uncivilised manner.

Full definition of ape

Questions about the plural of ape

What is the plural of ape?
The plural of ape is apes.
Is ape countable?
Ape is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ape (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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