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Plural of bowman

irregular plural

The plural of bowman is bowmen.

Forms of bowman

Singularbowman /ˈbəʊmən/
Pluralbowmen
Countablecountable

Bowmen in a sentence

  • The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 311, about the church at Pembridge

Meaning of bowman

  1. noun A man who uses a bow; an archer.
  2. noun The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow.

Full definition of bowman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of bowman

What is the plural of bowman?
The plural of bowman is bowmen.
Is bowman countable?
Bowman is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowman (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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