Plural of bay
regular plural
The plural of bay is bays.
Forms of bay
| Singular | bay /ˈbeɪ̯/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | bays /beɪz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Bays in a sentence
- Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
- The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51. From the entry match
- Shorelines are molded into smooth arcuate bays interrupted by cuspate horns.1999 April 2, B. T. Werner, “Complexity in Natural Landform Patterns”, in Science, volume 284, number 5411, →DOI, pages 102–104. From the entry cuspate
- A flattened person-made concrete block lying in between the two bays known as Gnejna and Ghajn Tuffieha.1981 April 11, George Xuereb, “Maltese Memories”, in Gay Community News, page 18. From the entry person-made
- Where are the bays which formerly indented the coastline of Hong Kong?1967, Gwenneth Stokes, John Stokes, “Hong Kong: Its Story in Brief”, in The Extreme East: A Modern History, Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 395. From the entry Morrison Hill
Meaning of bay
- noun A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
- noun A bank or dam to keep back water.
- noun A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
Questions about the plural of bay
- What is the plural of bay?
- The plural of bay is bays.
- Is bay countable?
- Bay is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bay (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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