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Plural of bowel

regular plural

The plural of bowel is bowels.

Forms of bowel

Singularbowel /ˈbaʊ.əl/
Pluralbowels /ˈbaʊ.əlz/
Countablecountable

Bowels in a sentence

  • The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  • About thirty minutes after he took the deflatulent, his bowels grew noticeably more quiescent.From the entry deflatulent
  • I searched for a place to empty my bowels and found an empty compound.2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell, Fonthill Media, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry curl one out
  • In the middle of the night the woman moved her bowels.2013 November 27, Joyce Wadler, “Bad Thanksgiving”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2015. From the entry move one's bowels
  • New Question: Is there any possible way to unpotty train myself both my bladder and my bowels?2012 August 5, EP_Questions, Twitter. From the entry unpotty train

Meaning of bowel

  1. noun A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  2. noun The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
  3. noun The (deep) interior of something.

Full definition of bowel

Questions about the plural of bowel

What is the plural of bowel?
The plural of bowel is bowels.
Is bowel countable?
Bowel is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowel (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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