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Plural of astronomer

regular plural

The plural of astronomer is astronomers.

Forms of astronomer

Singularastronomer /əˈstɹɒn.ə.mə/
Pluralastronomers
Countablecountable

Astronomers in a sentence

  • Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science.2020 January 7, Ashley Strickland, “First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin”, in CNN
  • But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it...
  • Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.From the entry accrete
  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.From the entry phoenix
  • Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.From the entry compare

Meaning of astronomer

  1. noun One who studies astronomy, the stars or the physical universe; a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.

Full definition of astronomer

Questions about the plural of astronomer

What is the plural of astronomer?
The plural of astronomer is astronomers.
Is astronomer countable?
Astronomer is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: astronomer (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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