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Plural of cup

regular plural

The plural of cup is cups.

Forms of cup

Singularcup /ˈkʌp/
Pluralcups /kʌps/
Countablecountable

Cups in a sentence

  • I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
  • Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books, →ISBN
  • You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.From the entry litre
  • Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.From the entry pinch
  • After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.From the entry wired

Meaning of cup

  1. noun A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
  2. noun The contents of said vessel.
  3. noun A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.

Full definition of cup

Questions about the plural of cup

What is the plural of cup?
The plural of cup is cups.
Is cup countable?
Cup is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cup (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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