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Plural of hide

regular plural

The plural of hide is hides.

Forms of hide

Singularhide /haɪd/
Pluralhides /haɪdz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Hides in a sentence

  • He hides his magazines under the bed.
  • A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Tighnabruaich
  • In those days, cotton mills were big business around here, and so was tanning of hides.From the entry big business
  • Like many Sri Lankans, pangolins have big tongues, thick hides and small brains.2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302. From the entry pangolin
  • The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook, page 257. From the entry magic

Meaning of hide

  1. verb To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
  2. verb To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
  3. noun The skin of an animal.

Full definition of hide

Questions about the plural of hide

What is the plural of hide?
The plural of hide is hides.
Is hide countable?
Hide is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hide (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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