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Plural of manuscript

regular plural

The plural of manuscript is manuscripts.

Forms of manuscript

Singularmanuscript /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
Pluralmanuscripts
Countablecountable

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

  1. adjective Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
  2. noun A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  3. 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.

Full definition of manuscript

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.

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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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