Plural of compare
regular plural
The plural of compare is compares.
Forms of compare
| Singular | compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | compares |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Compares in a sentence
- The article compares apples to apples, grouping diamond rings of the same variety and price together.From the entry compare apples to apples
- The figure compares the Jovian and Kronian magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling currents.From the entry Kronian
- The deduper compares these hashed representations along with metadata to determine exact and near dupes.2013, K. D. Ashley, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2013. From the entry deduper
- He makes a distinction which goes beyond semantics as he compares humanism and hominism.2011, Peter Denbo Haskins, The Transforming Power of Suffering, page 113. From the entry hominism
- They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone compares their results.2008 April 29, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 2010, page 147. From the entry LiveJournaler
Meaning of compare
- verb To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
- verb To declare two things to be similar in some respect [“to compare X to Y”].
- verb To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
Questions about the plural of compare
- What is the plural of compare?
- The plural of compare is compares.
- Is compare countable?
- Compare is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: compare (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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