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Plural of madman

irregular plural

The plural of madman is madmen.

Forms of madman

Singularmadman /ˈmædmən/
Pluralmadmen
Countablecountable

Madmen in a sentence

  • Hoffman's view is that all terrorists have goals, and that it is dangerous to see them only as madmen bent on destruction.2001 October 29, Nicholas Lemann, “What Terrorists Want”, in The New Yorker, volume 77. From the entry madmen
  • So, anyway, Jeff and I were whipping along, two totally stoned organic machines, riding a steel horse and grinning ear-to-ear like madmen.2000, Lori Varosh, Jim Hallas, I Am the War, page 23. From the entry steel horse
  • I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185. From the entry expedition
  • I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN. From the entry madchild

Meaning of madman

  1. noun A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.
  2. noun A person who makes risky and questionable decisions.
  3. noun A daredevil.

Full definition of madman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of madman

What is the plural of madman?
The plural of madman is madmen.
Is madman countable?
Madman is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: madman (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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