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Plural of howler

regular plural

The plural of howler is howlers.

Forms of howler

Singularhowler /ˈhaʊlɚ/
Pluralhowlers
Countablecountable

Howlers in a sentence

  • Jianmei caught some howlers for which I am very grateful.1997 [1935], William A. Lyell, “A Note on the Translation”, in Zhang Henshui, translated by William A. Lyell, Shanghai Express: A Thirties...
  • After thirty minutes, I had the two howlers fed and settled down for naps.2013, Tyora Moody, Deep Fried Trouble
  • Howlers make bomb threats to schools, malls, churches, businesses, and government offices.2015, Steve Albrecht, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. From the entry hunter
  • The principal kinds of American monkeys are the howlers, sakis, uakaris, teetees, squirrel-monkeys, spider-monkeys, barrigudos, and sapajous.1907, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 13. From the entry teetee

Meaning of howler

  1. noun That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  2. noun A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
  3. noun A painfully obvious mistake.

Full definition of howler

Questions about the plural of howler

What is the plural of howler?
The plural of howler is howlers.
Is howler countable?
Howler is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: howler (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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