Plural of hair
regular plural
The plural of hair is hairs.
Forms of hair
| Singular | hair /ˈhɛə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | hairs |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Hairs in a sentence
- Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
- To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108
- Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.From the entry split hairs
- The hairs on a dust mite are almost atomic.From the entry atomic
- Bacon hairs (aka bacons) are a very common avatar type that is found on Roblox.Jani Perkey (3 January 2024), “Roblox Bacon Download”, in ibm.software.network.directory-integrator (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry bacon hair
Meaning of hair
- noun A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- noun The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.
- noun Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.
Questions about the plural of hair
- What is the plural of hair?
- The plural of hair is hairs.
- Is hair countable?
- Hair is a countable and uncountable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hair (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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