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Plural of foursome

regular plural

The plural of foursome is foursomes.

Forms of foursome

Singularfoursome /ˈfɔɹsəm/
Pluralfoursomes
Countablecountable

Foursomes in a sentence

  • Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times
  • Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.2011 October, Mike Nettleton, Shotgun Start, Krill Press, →ISBN
  • In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans were square through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.2006 September 23, Jim McCabe, “As usual, Americans trailing after first day”, in The Columbus Dispatch. From the entry square
  • After the Dom Perignon toast and shotgun start, approximately 30 foursomes will head out to play two best balls on one of the most prestigious courses in the Cincinnati area.2009 January, “The Russ Wiles Memorial Golf Tournament”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 155. From the entry shotgun start

Meaning of foursome

  1. noun A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
  2. noun A sex act between four people.

Full definition of foursome

Questions about the plural of foursome

What is the plural of foursome?
The plural of foursome is foursomes.
Is foursome countable?
Foursome is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foursome (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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