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Plural of list

regular plural

The plural of list is lists.

Forms of list

Singularlist /lɪst/
Plurallists /lɪsts/
Countablecountable

Lists in a sentence

  • They ran down to the lists and Peter came outside the ropes to meet them, his face red and sweaty, his chest heaving.1951, C. S. Lewis, “Chapter 14. How All Were Very Busy”, in Prince Caspian
  • License consists in doing what one lists; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only; and our knowledge of the good must come from a higher principle, from above.1959, Leo Strauss, “What is Political Philosophy?”, in What is Political Philosophy?: And Other Studies, Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press...
  • The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.From the entry destroy
  • The Guinness Book of Records lists many biggests.From the entry biggest
  • The live report lists all the events in chronological order.From the entry chronological

Meaning of list

  1. noun A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. noun Material used for cloth selvage.
  3. noun A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

Full definition of list

Questions about the plural of list

What is the plural of list?
The plural of list is lists.
Is list countable?
List is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: list (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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