Plural of corn
regular plural
The plural of corn is corns.
Forms of corn
| Singular | corn /ˈkɔːn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | corns |
| Countable | usually uncountable |
Corns in a sentence
- He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
- We compared our hands: even the corns and handnails were the same.1969, Aleksandr Abramov, Sergei Abramov, Horsemen from Nowhere, Mir Publishers, page 21. From the entry handnail
- "I just want to get me blasted boots off and soak me poor feet, they're fair killing me, what with chilblains and corns, me toes are fair screaming."2011 June 1, Dorothy Mitchell, Hollybeck, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry fair
- I see that corns, that warts, that old, gray thoughts need to be cut away by my sapphire ideas, my Uranian mind and my daffodilly whims.1986, Hyacinthe Hill, “Aquarius”, in Poetry and the Stars, Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Scop and Gleeman Publishers, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry daffodilly
Meaning of corn
- noun Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- noun Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Questions about the plural of corn
- What is the plural of corn?
- The plural of corn is corns.
- Is corn countable?
- Corn is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: corn (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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