Plural of ham
regular plural
The plural of ham is hams.
Forms of ham
| Singular | ham /ˈhæm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | hams |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Hams in a sentence
- "I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165
- McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”2023 June 13, Dwight Garner, quoting James Wood, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”, in The New York Times...
- Hams love awards, and thousands of awards are available.2013, H. Ward Silver, Ham Radio For Dummies. From the entry wallpaper
- These include cut portions, reformed roasts, rolls, escallops, grillsteaks, burgers, turkey hams, nuggets, sausages, frankfurters, salamis, bolognas, and ready meals.2000, Barbara M. Lund, Tony C. Baird-Parker, Grahame Warwick Gould, The microbiological safety and quality of food. From the entry grillsteak
- But I can’t understand why you radio hams would choose a bakeoven like Death Valley for your weekend gig.1985, Walker A. Tompkins, “Crossbow Killer’s Warning”, in Death Valley QTH (Tommy Rockford), Newington, Conn.: American Radio Relay…. From the entry bakeoven
Meaning of ham
- noun The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- noun A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- noun Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
Questions about the plural of ham
- What is the plural of ham?
- The plural of ham is hams.
- Is ham countable?
- Ham is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ham (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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