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Plural of foreground

regular plural

The plural of foreground is foregrounds.

Forms of foreground

Singularforeground /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/
Pluralforegrounds
Countablecountable

Foregrounds in a sentence

  • Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club...
  • The argument foregrounds a disavowed register of European nationalisms: the moral majority’s ludophilia toward “lazy” and “unproductive” Gypsies.2009, Anikó Imre, Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry ludophilia

Meaning of foreground

  1. noun The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
  2. noun The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
  3. noun The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.

Full definition of foreground

Questions about the plural of foreground

What is the plural of foreground?
The plural of foreground is foregrounds.
Is foreground countable?
Foreground is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreground (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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