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Plural of exception

regular plural

The plural of exception is exceptions.

Forms of exception

Singularexception /əkˈsɛpʃən/
Pluralexceptions /əkˈsɛpʃənz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Exceptions in a sentence

  • That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
  • Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.From the entry password
  • Forced socialization rarely creates strong friendships, but there are exceptions.From the entry socialization
  • Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.From the entry throwable
  • There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry predominance

Meaning of exception

  1. noun The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  2. noun That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
  3. noun An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.

Full definition of exception

Questions about the plural of exception

What is the plural of exception?
The plural of exception is exceptions.
Is exception countable?
Exception is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exception (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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