Plural of cherry
regular plural
The plural of cherry is cherries.
Forms of cherry
| Singular | cherry /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | cherries |
| Countable | countable |
Cherries in a sentence
- Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20
- This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.From the entry strictly speaking
- Pippin knots, millefruit biscuits, preserved cherries, and apricot tartlets were Kitty’s for the taking.2022, Laura Frantz, A Heart Adrift, Revell, →ISBN. From the entry millefruit
- Lucie cherries are harvested for their pits, which are cracked open to reveal small light-brown kernels.2015, Lindsay Herman, Herb & Spice Companion: The Complete Guide to Over 100 Herbs & Spices. From the entry mahlab
- The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 22. From the entry maraschino cherry
Meaning of cherry
- noun A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- noun Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- noun The wood of a cherry tree.
Questions about the plural of cherry
- What is the plural of cherry?
- The plural of cherry is cherries.
- Is cherry countable?
- Cherry is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cherry (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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