Plural of encounter
regular plural
The plural of encounter is encounters.
Forms of encounter
| Singular | encounter /ɪnˈkaʊntə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | encounters |
| Countable | countable |
Encounters in a sentence
- As they have planned the encounters, they mostly have control over the time limits.1995, Maija Kalin, Coping with problems of understanding: repair sequences in conversations between native and non-native speakers
- His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived.From the entry stall
- There have been other encounters with uncontacted tribes in recent years.2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN. From the entry uncontacted
- Once the soul incarnates in mortal bodies, in encounters massive impediments.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
- To return to my encounters with Reznikoff’s work, I see a strong echo of the stuplime.2014, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, “Shock and Blah: Offensive Postures in 'Conceptual' Poetry and the Traumatic Stuplime”, in Evening Will Come…. From the entry stuplime
Meaning of encounter
- verb To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- verb To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- verb To meet one another.
Questions about the plural of encounter
- What is the plural of encounter?
- The plural of encounter is encounters.
- Is encounter countable?
- Encounter is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: encounter (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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