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Plural of madeleine

regular plural

The plural of madeleine is madeleines.

Forms of madeleine

Singularmadeleine /ˈmad(ə)lɪn/
Pluralmadeleines
Countablecountable

Madeleines in a sentence

  • Suddenly it all came back to him, the tea, the petite madeleines, his mother.From the entry come back
  • Also there are madeleines made by the biscuitry of the abbey located at Avenay-Val-d'Or near Rheims.1961, Poppy Cannon, Poppy Cannon's Eating European: Abroad and at Home, page 152. From the entry biscuitry
  • The mediologist busies himself with the forms of media like Marcel Proust with his petites madeleines, or Sigmund Freud with his slips.1996, Régis Debray, Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms. From the entry mediologist

Meaning of madeleine

  1. noun A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
  2. noun Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.

Full definition of madeleine

Questions about the plural of madeleine

What is the plural of madeleine?
The plural of madeleine is madeleines.
Is madeleine countable?
Madeleine is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: madeleine (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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