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Plural of headlamp

regular plural

The plural of headlamp is headlamps.

Forms of headlamp

Singularheadlamp /ˈhɛdˌlæmp/
Pluralheadlamps
Countablecountable

Headlamps in a sentence

  • Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site.2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry weber
  • This method of birc-catching is based on the ‘rabbit in the headlamps’ principle.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 133. From the entry rabbit in the headlamps
  • Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.1979, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, “Stark’s Zoo”, in The Unlimited Dream Company […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart…. From the entry inflame
  • Except for the shaft of light thrown by her own headlamps, the darkness was Egyptian.1933, Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, Harcourt, Brace, page 146. From the entry Egyptian darkness

Meaning of headlamp

  1. noun An individual headlight, particularly of a motor vehicle.
  2. noun A flashlight worn on the head.

Full definition of headlamp

Questions about the plural of headlamp

What is the plural of headlamp?
The plural of headlamp is headlamps.
Is headlamp countable?
Headlamp is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headlamp (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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