Plural of manuscript
regular plural
The plural of manuscript is manuscripts.
Forms of manuscript
| Singular | manuscript /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | manuscripts |
| Countable | countable |
Manuscripts in a sentence
- Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.From the entry study
- The enormous collection of manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria is lost to history.From the entry lost to history
- He was a prolific annotator - writing around fifty thousand glosses in as many as twenty manuscripts.2021, Mary Wellesley, The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts, page 9. From the entry gloss
- Manuscripts in which the letters were fused were also fairly old.2020, Anthony Grafton, Inky Fingers: the Making of Books in Early Modern Europe, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, page 87. From the entry cedillated e
- There is no agreement in the manuscripts on whether it should be oxytonic or perispomene.2015, Lars Nordgren, “αἰαῖ—aiai”, in Greek Interjections: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs…. From the entry perispomene
Meaning of manuscript
- adjective Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
- noun A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- noun A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
Questions about the plural of manuscript
- What is the plural of manuscript?
- The plural of manuscript is manuscripts.
- Is manuscript countable?
- Manuscript is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: manuscript (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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