Plural of fathom

Forms of fathom

Fathoms in a sentence

• After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.
• At fifty fathoms, the waters of the Southern Ocean are dark blue.1983, Richard Ellis, “The Predators”, in The Book of Sharks, 1st paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published 1989...
• For much of the Ice Age, men walked dryshod on the bed of the North Sea many fathoms below where ships now sail.From the entry dry-shod
• Water depths range from 4 to 45 fathoms over the bank.1985, Daniel J. Dzurek, “Boundary and Resource Disputes in the South China Sea”, in Ocean Yearbook 5, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Chungsha
• Depth not too great — say 6 to 10 fathoms — and bottom a swearsome one.1967, Thomas Welsby, Andrew Kilpatrick Thomson, The Collected Works of Thomas Welsby - Volume 1. From the entry swearsome

Meaning of fathom

1. noun A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
2. noun An internationally standardized version of this unit, the international fathom (= 1.8288 metres = 6 feet).
3. noun A measure of distance to shore: the nearest point to shore at which the water depth is the value quoted.

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Questions about the plural of fathom

What is the plural of fathom?

The plural of fathom is fathoms.

Is fathom countable?

Fathom is a countable noun.