Plural of eddy
regular plural
The plural of eddy is eddies.
Forms of eddy
| Singular | eddy /ˈɛd.i/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | eddies |
| Countable | countable |
Eddies in a sentence
- After a moment’s hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies.1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
- It’s a uniquely American news story, one that eddies until it surges, and then, after it has mostly receded from view, surges again.2023, Clayton Collins, quoted in: Clayton Collins, Jingnan Peng, Right to arms, right to peace? Our writer explored a balance., in: The...
- Similarly, wake cyclonic sub-mesoscale eddies generated in the lee of St.2016 March 5, “Eastern Caribbean Circulation and Island Mass Effect on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands: A Mechanism for Relatively Consistent…. From the entry superinertial
- Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling.1986, Sea Frontiers, Sea Secrets - Volume 32, page 309. From the entry downwell
- He paces the islet, from where the river divides to where it reunifies, contemplating the “joyous eddies” created by the two arms conflowing.2007, C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought. From the entry conflow
Meaning of eddy
- noun A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
- noun A circular current; a whirlpool.
- verb To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
Questions about the plural of eddy
- What is the plural of eddy?
- The plural of eddy is eddies.
- Is eddy countable?
- Eddy is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eddy (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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