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Plural of junk

regular plural

The plural of junk is junks.

Forms of junk

Singularjunk /d͡ʒʌŋk/
Pluraljunks
Countablecountable and uncountable

Junks in a sentence

  • The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry sanglay
  • Here, for the first time, it becomes navigable for junks and steamboats.1970, Margaret Rau, “The Red Basin”, in The Yangtze River, New York: Julian Messner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 32–33. From the entry Ipin
  • Elsewhere on the Island, facilities for the transport of goods were limited to landing piers and prayas for junks and lighters.1973, Tzu-nang Chiu, The Port of Hong Kong: A Survey of its Development, page 24. From the entry praya
  • Junks have a deck and high masts, most commonly three, with four-cornered, coarse cotton sails, called lugsails, braced flat by bamboo strips or battens.1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 15, page 139. From the entry lugsail
  • From so high, the Nationalist islands look like lumps of cookie batter dropped onto the smooth harbor, with picturesque sailing junks not far away.1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from…. From the entry lookout

Meaning of junk

  1. noun Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
  2. noun Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
  3. noun Nonsense; gibberish.

Full definition of junk

Questions about the plural of junk

What is the plural of junk?
The plural of junk is junks.
Is junk countable?
Junk is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: junk (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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