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Plural of dose

regular plural

The plural of dose is doses.

Forms of dose

Singulardose /ˈdəʊ̯s/
Pluraldoses
Countablecountable

Doses in a sentence

  • Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
  • I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.From the entry hormone
  • When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.From the entry add up
  • The patient should be on broad spectrum antibiotics in antimeningitic doses.From the entry antimeningitic
  • The country has already distributed over one million doses to health care workers, but who’s next?2020 December 27, Charlotte Cowles, “The Week in Business: The Bitter End”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2021. From the entry vaxxie

Meaning of dose

  1. noun A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  2. noun The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
  3. noun Anything disagreeable that must be taken.

Full definition of dose

Questions about the plural of dose

What is the plural of dose?
The plural of dose is doses.
Is dose countable?
Dose is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dose (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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