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Plural of bass

regular plural

The plural of bass is basses.

Forms of bass

Singularbass /beɪs/
Pluralbasses
Countablecountable

Plural of bass by meaning

  1. a low spectrum of sound tones.: basses
  2. the perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the...: basses or bass

Basses in a sentence

  • As is typical for the period, his left-hand notation includes a mixture of continuo bass lines and standard fill-outs such as Alberti basses.2010, Tilman Skowroneck, Beethoven the Pianist, page 182. From the entry fill-out

Meaning of bass

  1. adjective Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
  2. noun A low spectrum of sound tones.
  3. noun A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.

Full definition of bass

Questions about the plural of bass

What is the plural of bass?
The plural of bass is basses.
Is bass countable?
Bass is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bass (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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