Plural of crescent
regular plural
The plural of crescent is crescents.
Forms of crescent
| Singular | crescent /ˈkɹɛz.ənt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | crescents |
| Countable | countable |
Crescents in a sentence
- These crescents, I think, hint of invisible threeness within twoness.1971, Robert Farris Thompson, Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, L.A.: University of California, page 6/4, column 2. From the entry crescential
- This close to the election, and every political adviser in the land will be sporting charcoal crescents under their eyes while hooking themselves up to Red Bull drips.2015 May 5, Rosamund Urwin, “Election Night 2015: How to pull off an all-nighter on May 7”, in The London Standard. From the entry right-hand woman
- There were over a score of small gold beads, 2 gold scaraboids, gold crescents, pendants shaped like pomegranate buds, several gold rings, pins of gold-covered bronze.1932, Elihu Grant, Irving Francis Wood, George Ernest Wright, Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine), page 21. From the entry scaraboid
Meaning of crescent
- noun The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
- noun A curved pastry.
- noun A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
Questions about the plural of crescent
- What is the plural of crescent?
- The plural of crescent is crescents.
- Is crescent countable?
- Crescent is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crescent (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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