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Plural of cello

regular plural

The plural of cello is cellos.

Forms of cello

Singularcello /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
Pluralcellos
Countablecountable

Cellos in a sentence

  • The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.From the entry desk
  • Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020. From the entry feral

Meaning of cello

  1. noun A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
  2. noun Cellophane.

Full definition of cello

Questions about the plural of cello

What is the plural of cello?
The plural of cello is cellos.
Is cello countable?
Cello is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cello (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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