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Plural of fisher

regular plural

The plural of fisher is fishers.

Forms of fisher

Singularfisher /ˈfɪʃə/
Pluralfishers
Countablecountable

Fishers in a sentence

  • The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.2021 December, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 43, column 1
  • Fishers do not have to wear them.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry PFD
  • However, the gathering of this resource, which is carried out manually by the percebeiros or “goose barnacle fishers” entails great risks.2010 February, Esteban Álvarez-Fernández, Roberto Ontañón-Peredo, José Molares-Vila, “Archaeological data on the exploitation of the goose…. From the entry percebeiro
  • The Gulf of Thailand became more overfished than ever, causing acrimonious conflicts between domestic artisanal and large-scale fishers.1987, William F. Royce, Fishery Development, page 99. From the entry overfished
  • By this generous, almost communistic imagery, we are all aswim in the same great gene pool, or fishers from the river of human perpetuity.2014, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated). From the entry aswim

Meaning of fisher

  1. noun A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
  2. noun A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
  3. noun Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

Full definition of fisher

Questions about the plural of fisher

What is the plural of fisher?
The plural of fisher is fishers.
Is fisher countable?
Fisher is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fisher (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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