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Plural of catapult

regular plural

The plural of catapult is catapults.

Forms of catapult

Singularcatapult /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/
Pluralcatapults
Countablecountable

Catapults in a sentence

  • Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.From the entry gun
  • The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401. From the entry mangonel

Meaning of catapult

  1. noun A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.
  2. noun A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
  3. noun A slingshot.

Full definition of catapult

Questions about the plural of catapult

What is the plural of catapult?
The plural of catapult is catapults.
Is catapult countable?
Catapult is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catapult (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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