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Plural of folder

regular plural

The plural of folder is folders.

Forms of folder

Singularfolder /ˈfoʊldɚ/
Pluralfolders
Countablecountable

Folders in a sentence

  • We were scrunged up at a small table, at least those of us not dropping folders.2017, Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game. From the entry scrunge
  • They pick up massive folders of paper and leave, rhubarbing as they go.2014, Jon Brittain, Matt Tedford, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry rhubarb
  • I had set permissions on the public folders so no one could create any a while back.2002 June 12, mrlargeit, “Public Folder Store Disappeared”, in microsoft.public.exchange2000.information.store (Usenet). From the entry cattle truck
  • All other folders should contain subject content and activities for the user.1995, Gertrude W. Abramson, Learning with LinkWay: Tutorial & Applications, page 10. From the entry superfolder
  • Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security. From the entry cascade

Meaning of folder

  1. noun An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
  2. noun A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
  3. noun A machine or person that folds things.

Full definition of folder

Questions about the plural of folder

What is the plural of folder?
The plural of folder is folders.
Is folder countable?
Folder is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: folder (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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