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Plural of compare

regular plural

The plural of compare is compares.

Forms of compare

Singularcompare /kəmˈpɛɚ/
Pluralcompares
Countablecountable 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

  1. 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.
  2. verb To declare two things to be similar in some respect [“to compare X to Y”].
  3. verb To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

Full definition of compare

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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