Plural of earl

Forms of earl

Earls in a sentence

• But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic. From the entry folly
• Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21. From the entry slaughter
• Any Bridgertonian will be familiar with their fair share of dukes, but the class was also occupied by marquises, earls, viscounts, barons and their families.2023, Catherine Curzon, Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society, unnumbered page. From the entry Bridgertonian
• After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark, page 116. From the entry marrying
• Many foretell Michael's tide far and wide five nights on past the equinox when earls and ceorls keep harvest time with the high angel's feast remembered together throughout the land.2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England and the influence of Ramsey Abbey on the major English monastic…. From the entry high angel

Meaning of earl

1. noun A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
2. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.

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Questions about the plural of earl

What is the plural of earl?

The plural of earl is earls.

Is earl countable?

Earl is a countable noun.