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Plural of hawker

regular plural

The plural of hawker is hawkers.

Forms of hawker

Singularhawker /ˈhɔːkə/
Pluralhawkers
Countablecountable

Hawkers in a sentence

  • First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago.2011 May, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update, Singapore: Institute of Policy...
  • There is also fear that some hawkers may thaw the fish and sell it as fresh.1978 July 13, “Frozen fish: Fear of profiteering at 'wet' markets”, in The Straits Times, Singapore. From the entry wet market
  • Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits.1949 April 18, Dwight Martin, “City of Defeat”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013. From the entry zooty
  • The food vendors, or hawkers, smiled at each other beatifically while ladling out the hot soup and meat in a bowl.2011, Edmund M. Schirmer, “Finding Home Again”, in When there were Tigers in Singapore: A Family Saga of the Japanese Occupation…. From the entry angmoh
  • The hawkers' athletic contrappostos, intellectual and imaginary rather than plausible, speak of the mind's superiority to the body.2002, Sean Shesgreen, “Broadsheet Cries and British Commerce”, in Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London…. From the entry contrapposto

Meaning of hawker

  1. noun A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
  2. noun Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
  3. noun A seller of food in a hawker centre.

Full definition of hawker

Questions about the plural of hawker

What is the plural of hawker?
The plural of hawker is hawkers.
Is hawker countable?
Hawker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawker (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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