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Plural of backpack

regular plural

The plural of backpack is backpacks.

Forms of backpack

Singularbackpack /ˈbæk.pæk/
Pluralbackpacks
Countablecountable

Backpacks in a sentence

  • Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77
  • After a break for lunch, we reshouldered our backpacks and resumed the hike.From the entry reshoulder
  • You’ll find her posting in pics on social media wearing things like scrunchies, Fjällräven backpacks, Birkenstocks, crop tops and even mom jeans.2020 January 1, “All Hail the VSCO Girl!”, in J-14. From the entry VSCO girl
  • Still, it would make sense to have norröna.fo be the ferry, while norrøna.fo could be the local reseller of the Norwegian backpacks.2012 November 29, Jan Egil Kristiansen, “The case for Faroese Letters under the Faroese ccTLD .fo”, in Styrheim Tech. From the entry synoglyph
  • And now there are not only backpacks but forepacks, bulky knapsacks hanging under the chin and alleged by their manufacturers to be an essential security precaution.1996, Dervla Murphy, The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe. From the entry forepack

Meaning of backpack

  1. noun A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
  2. noun A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life support equipment.
  3. verb To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

Full definition of backpack

Questions about the plural of backpack

What is the plural of backpack?
The plural of backpack is backpacks.
Is backpack countable?
Backpack is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpack (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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