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Plural of duck

regular plural

The plural of duck is ducks.

Forms of duck

Singularduck /dʌk/
Pluralducks /dʌks/
Countablecountable

Plural of duck by meaning

  1. a cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.: ducks
  2. any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet...: ducks or duck

Ducks in a sentence

  • And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island, looking to his poultry or his rabbits.1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter III, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st American edition, New York...
  • A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 74
  • They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.From the entry bench
  • We went by bus down to the water to feed the ducks.From the entry by
  • There were ducks, geese, swans, you name it on the lake.From the entry you name it

Meaning of duck

  1. verb To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  2. verb To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
  3. verb To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

Full definition of duck

Questions about the plural of duck

What is the plural of duck?
The plural of duck is ducks.
Is duck countable?
Duck is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: duck (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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