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Plural of defense

regular plural

The plural of defense is defenses.

Forms of defense

Singulardefense /dɪˈfɛns/
Pluraldefenses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Defenses in a sentence

  • They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.From the entry battery
  • As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly.From the entry caseload
  • The hackers played a cat and mouse game with the system administrators: the hackers kept trying new tricks, and the system administrators kept mounting electronic defenses.From the entry cat and mouse
  • Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats.2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times, archived from the…. From the entry Tokyo
  • In essence, we evolved defenses that rendered us nearly invincible and allowed us to become obligatorily social.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry obligatorily

Meaning of defense

  1. noun The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
  2. noun A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  3. noun The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

Full definition of defense

Questions about the plural of defense

What is the plural of defense?
The plural of defense is defenses.
Is defense countable?
Defense is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defense (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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