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Plural of bile

regular plural

The plural of bile is biles.

Forms of bile

Singularbile /baɪl/
Pluralbiles
Countableusually uncountable

Meaning of bile

  1. noun A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  2. noun Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. noun Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

Full definition of bile

Questions about the plural of bile

What is the plural of bile?
The plural of bile is biles.
Is bile countable?
Bile is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bile (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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