Plural of fowl
irregular plural
The plural of fowl is fowl or fowls.
Forms of fowl
| Singular | fowl /faʊl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | fowl /faʊl/ fowls /faʊlz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Fowls in a sentence
- Fowls serenaded, and dogs passed the time lazily, even in the Gentlemen’s Walk.1926, P[ercy] W[ard] Laidler, A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days, Cape Town…. From the entry Kapenaar
- "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls."1920, Marie Conway Oernler, “IV: The Soul of Black Folks”, in The Purple Heights, New York: Century Co.. From the entry potrack
- Like most pure-bred fowls, a flock of Rhode Island Reds is very pleasing to the eye.1913 March 29, Mrs. E.F. Lant, quotee, “Why I Raise Rhode Island Reds”, in Kansas Farmer, volume 51, number 13, page 14. From the entry Rhode Island Red
- Animals, ducks, fowls, etc., are not fit to kill, do not live, and turn out eventually very dear bargains.2011, Edward Belcher, The Last of the Arctic Voyages, →ISBN. From the entry fit to kill
- Many brought presents of roast chickens and pigs, swinging the fowls by their legs as they extolled their succulence.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 138. From the entry succulence
Meaning of fowl
- noun Any bird.
- noun A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
- verb To hunt fowl.
Plural the same as the singular
Questions about the plural of fowl
- What is the plural of fowl?
- The plural of fowl is fowl or fowls.
- Is fowl countable?
- Fowl is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fowl (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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