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Plural of debutante

regular plural

The plural of debutante is debutantes.

Forms of debutante

Singulardebutante /ˌdɛbjuːˈtɑːnt/
Pluraldebutantes
Countablecountable

Debutantes in a sentence

  • Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.1979 October, Roald Dahl, chapter 1, in My Uncle Oswald, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2011…. From the entry wench
  • The entrance and departure on and from the social scene by most of the debutantes has been quite in the nature of a Cinderellian performance.1908 January 5, “In Social Circles. A Week of Many Gay Events—Entertainments Past and to Come—The Latest Engagements and Wedding…. From the entry Cinderellian
  • Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry Chloe

Meaning of debutante

  1. noun A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society.
  2. noun A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.

Full definition of debutante

Questions about the plural of debutante

What is the plural of debutante?
The plural of debutante is debutantes.
Is debutante countable?
Debutante is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debutante (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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