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Plural of axe

regular plural

The plural of axe is axes.

Forms of axe

Singularaxe /æks/
Pluralaxes /ˈæksəz/
Countablecountable

Axes in a sentence

  • A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes.From the entry solid of revolution
  • The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.From the entry edged
  • Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.From the entry dwarfish
  • They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.From the entry bluntish
  • In the Wetherill diagram, no isotope is found on both axes, allowing the two decay schemes to be evaluated independently.From the entry Wetherill diagram

Meaning of axe

  1. noun A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  2. noun An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  3. noun A dismissal or rejection.

Full definition of axe

Questions about the plural of axe

What is the plural of axe?
The plural of axe is axes.
Is axe countable?
Axe is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: axe (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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