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Plural of char

regular plural

The plural of char is chars or char.

Forms of char

Singularchar /t͡ʃɑː/
Pluralchars
char /t͡ʃɑː/
Countablecountable

Plural of char by meaning

  1. a charred substance.: chars or char
  2. a time; a turn or occasion.: chars
  3. a character (text element such as a letter or symbol).: chars

Chars in a sentence

  • The rollers wore grooves in the nursery floors and the chars complained of getting splinters in their hands while scrubbing.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 77
  • Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++
  • It has also been shown that the various nitrogen adsorption isotherms for bone chars could be plotted on a single curve.1944, Bone Char Research Project, Report for 1943-44 and the Five-year Period 1939-44 for the Research Project on the Fundamental…. From the entry bone char
  • At a quarter past eleven a succession of chars-à-bancs brought up specially-invited guests from the station and I went down into the compound to assist at the reception.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed. From the entry char-à-banc

Meaning of char

  1. verb To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
  2. verb To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
  3. verb To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

Full definition of char

Questions about the plural of char

What is the plural of char?
The plural of char is chars or char.
Is char countable?
Char is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: char (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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