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Plural of doe

irregular plural

The plural of doe is doe or does.

Forms of doe

Singulardoe /dəʊ/
Pluraldoe /dəʊ/
does /dəz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Does in a sentence

  • The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN
  • We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.From the entry robot
  • The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.From the entry zero
  • Well, well, well, it seems the silent one does have a voice, after all.From the entry one
  • The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.From the entry language

Meaning of doe

  1. noun A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
  2. noun A female fallow deer.
  3. noun A female rabbit or hare.

Full definition of doe

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of doe

What is the plural of doe?
The plural of doe is doe or does.
Is doe countable?
Doe is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doe (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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