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Plural of instant

regular plural

The plural of instant is instants.

Forms of instant

Singularinstant /ˈɪnstənt/
Pluralinstants
Countablecountable

Instants in a sentence

  • The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged .2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138. From the entry protensive
  • It could exist in decadesful of instants.2007, Joyelle McSweeney, Flet: A Novel, page 14. From the entry decadeful
  • So far only instants have passed; he has another three minim before the situation of any captives would become lethal, if he has misduplicated those frequencies.2015, James Tiptree, Jr., The Starry Rift. From the entry misduplicate

Meaning of instant

  1. noun A very short period of time; a moment.
  2. noun A single, usually precise, point in time.
  3. noun A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.

Full definition of instant

Questions about the plural of instant

What is the plural of instant?
The plural of instant is instants.
Is instant countable?
Instant is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instant (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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