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Plural of lace

regular plural

The plural of lace is laces.

Forms of lace

Singularlace /leɪs/
Plurallaces /ˈleɪ.sɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Laces in a sentence

  • your laces are untied, do them up!
  • Flanner's old-fashioned, staunch feminism runs throughout and laces together these letters.1986 April 12, Robin Lippincott, “Passionate Friendship, Old-fashioned Feminism”, in Gay Community News, page 14
  • These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.From the entry differ
  • Duhhh, I'm Jasmine, I can't even tie my shoe laces right!From the entry duh
  • The laces frayed at the cut end.From the entry fray

Meaning of lace

  1. noun A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
  2. noun A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
  3. noun A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

Full definition of lace

Questions about the plural of lace

What is the plural of lace?
The plural of lace is laces.
Is lace countable?
Lace is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lace (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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