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Plural of fever

regular plural

The plural of fever is fevers.

Forms of fever

Singularfever /ˈfiːvə/
Pluralfevers
Countablecountable and uncountable

Fevers in a sentence

  • The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry greek
  • Quinine, for example, was a known treatment for malaria and other 'bilious fevers of a paludic nature'.2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. From the entry paludic
  • The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253. From the entry pyrexia
  • It is best to consider these as mild temperature elevations, possibly due to autonomic instability, and not label these as fevers.2017, Randall Fisher, Thomas G. Boyce, Armando G. Correa, Moffet's Pediatric Infectious Diseases. From the entry pseudofever
  • Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds.2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN. From the entry nutrition

Meaning of fever

  1. noun A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
  2. noun Any of various diseases.
  3. noun A state of excitement or anxiety.

Full definition of fever

Questions about the plural of fever

What is the plural of fever?
The plural of fever is fevers.
Is fever countable?
Fever is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fever (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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