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Plural of ham

regular plural

The plural of ham is hams.

Forms of ham

Singularham /ˈhæm/
Pluralhams
Countablecountable 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

  1. noun The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
  2. noun A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
  3. noun Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

Full definition of ham

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.

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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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