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Plural of fairway

regular plural

The plural of fairway is fairways.

Forms of fairway

Singularfairway /ˈfɛɹweɪ/
Pluralfairways
Countablecountable

Fairways in a sentence

  • Th' fairways are a' rough an' full' o' holes an' th' rough is a haggy wilderness.1923, The Judge, page 14. From the entry haggy
  • So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356. From the entry landslide
  • There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry green

Meaning of fairway

  1. noun The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
  2. noun Any tract of land free from obstacles.
  3. noun A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6).

Full definition of fairway

Questions about the plural of fairway

What is the plural of fairway?
The plural of fairway is fairways.
Is fairway countable?
Fairway is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairway (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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