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Plural of featherweight

regular plural

The plural of featherweight is featherweights.

Forms of featherweight

Singularfeatherweight /ˈfɛðɚˌweɪt/
Pluralfeatherweights
Countablecountable

Featherweights in a sentence

  • Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.1923 November 14, Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 5/3

Meaning of featherweight

  1. noun A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.
  2. noun A sportsman who fights in this division.
  3. noun The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.

Full definition of featherweight

Questions about the plural of featherweight

What is the plural of featherweight?
The plural of featherweight is featherweights.
Is featherweight countable?
Featherweight is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: featherweight (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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