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Plural of grenade

regular plural

The plural of grenade is grenades.

Forms of grenade

Singulargrenade /ɡɹəˈneɪd/
Pluralgrenades
Countablecountable

Grenades in a sentence

  • All carried laser carbines, grenades, missile launchers, mines—a whole panoply of death.2008, Neal Asher, Prador Moon. From the entry xenopathology
  • Andy picked up his two grenades and followed the line into the pits.1956, Marion Hargrove, The Girl He Left Behind: Or, All Quiet in the Third Platoon, New York, N.Y.: Viking Books, →OCLC, page 129. From the entry apple
  • At first the society fought back, but when the Fascists began breaking up Camorrists' meetings with hand grenades the opposition ceased.2016, Thomas Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power. From the entry Camorrist
  • Two Iraqi soldiers were brought in the morning after being wounded by the backblast of one of their own rocket-propelled grenades.2008 April 21, Michael R. Gordon, “Civilians Suffer in Sadr City’s Daily Gun Battles”, in New York Times. From the entry backblast
  • You start off with just seven clips of ammo and five grenades — so all you autofire merchants are in trouble.1988, Operation Wolf (review), Crash issue 59 (December 1988). From the entry autofire

Meaning of grenade

  1. noun A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
  2. noun A pomegranate.
  3. noun A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.

Full definition of grenade

Questions about the plural of grenade

What is the plural of grenade?
The plural of grenade is grenades.
Is grenade countable?
Grenade is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grenade (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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