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Plural of curb

regular plural

The plural of curb is curbs.

Forms of curb

Singularcurb /kɝb/
Pluralcurbs
Countablecountable

Curbs in a sentence

  • She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian
  • The Xian housing bureau also expanded existing curbs to include one more district, Lintong.2019 June 20, Yawen Chen, Ryan Woo, “China's top performing property market in May tightens purchase rules”, in Reuters, archived from the…. From the entry Lintong
  • Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises.1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove…. From the entry freshet
  • The curbs being thus relaid to “bonings," they form the level from which all others are taken.1913, Proceedings of the Institution of Municipal Engineers. From the entry boning
  • If he curbs his swing a little and gets something crisper and tauter in his methods he may yet be very good.1921 March 19, Bernard Darwin, “Golf on the Forest”, in Peter Anderson Graham, editor, Country Life, volume XLIX, number 1263, London…. From the entry taut

Meaning of curb

  1. noun A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand).
  2. noun A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
  3. noun Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

Full definition of curb

Questions about the plural of curb

What is the plural of curb?
The plural of curb is curbs.
Is curb countable?
Curb is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curb (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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