Plural of lily
regular plural
The plural of lily is lilies.
Forms of lily
| Singular | lily /ˈlɪli/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | lilies /ˈlɪliz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Lilies in a sentence
- The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New...
- I planted a row of lilies around the statue.From the entry around
- The table was piled with odorous lilies.From the entry odorous
- The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and include all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc.From the entry endogen
- Some suggestions include pothos, philodendrons, arrowheads, Chinese evergreens, peace lilies and zamioculcas (or “ZZ”).2015, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry windowsill
Meaning of lily
- noun Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
- noun Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
- noun The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
Questions about the plural of lily
- What is the plural of lily?
- The plural of lily is lilies.
- Is lily countable?
- Lily is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lily (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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