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Plural of gorge

regular plural

The plural of gorge is gorges.

Forms of gorge

Singulargorge /ɡɔːdʒ/
Pluralgorges
Countablecountable

Gorges in a sentence

  • Hooks of willow wood or bone (often from wishbone) and copper gorges (thin bipointed rods with a fishline attachment in the middle) could be baited with fish scrap or meat.2001, Frederick Matthew Wiseman, “The Land Becomes Warm: The Years of the Log Ships (6,500 to 1,000 Winters Ago)”, in The Voice of the...
  • Among the many implements discovered are fish-gorges made of bronze wire.2010, Barnet Phillips, “The Primitive Fish-hook”, in Nick Lyons, editor, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse...
  • Alpine plants that cannot establish themselves in earthy gorges must adapt to a petricolous habit in cracks in rocks.From the entry petricolous
  • Today she and husband Murray “bushbash” regularly, going camping in remote gorges and creeks.1990, Asiaweek, volume 16, page 128. From the entry bushbash
  • Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20. From the entry I-ch'ang

Meaning of gorge

  1. noun The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  2. noun The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
  3. noun The throat of a flower.

Full definition of gorge

Questions about the plural of gorge

What is the plural of gorge?
The plural of gorge is gorges.
Is gorge countable?
Gorge is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gorge (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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