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Plural of carpenter

regular plural

The plural of carpenter is carpenters.

Forms of carpenter

Singularcarpenter /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/
Pluralcarpenters
Countablecountable

Carpenters in a sentence

  • The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa, page 146
  • The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.From the entry dummy up
  • There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!From the entry crew
  • The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.From the entry dummy
  • The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.From the entry sawmill

Meaning of carpenter

  1. noun A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. noun A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  3. noun A two-wheeled carriage.

Full definition of carpenter

Questions about the plural of carpenter

What is the plural of carpenter?
The plural of carpenter is carpenters.
Is carpenter countable?
Carpenter is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carpenter (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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