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Plural of massacre

regular plural

The plural of massacre is massacres.

Forms of massacre

Singularmassacre /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/
Pluralmassacres
Countablecountable and uncountable

Massacres in a sentence

  • The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.From the entry spillover
  • Massacres that take place during war often seem to be rooted in irrational emotion.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian. From the entry root
  • Lawrence) and the Turk of the massacres (see Delacroix and others).1973 November 24, John Canaday, “Art: Echoes of Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times. From the entry pillager
  • They fell from grace from normaldom and formed this group of unfortunate casualties of the market god's massacres of humanity.2011, Munayem Mayenin, Laranska the Anatomy of Fear. From the entry normaldom
  • You speak of "ethnocide:" there has been no ethnocide of Breton people, that I know of (I'm aware of the Nantes massacres during the Revolution).1999 July 22, Gildas Hamel, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022. From the entry victimation

Meaning of massacre

  1. noun The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
  2. noun Murder.
  3. noun Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.

Full definition of massacre

Questions about the plural of massacre

What is the plural of massacre?
The plural of massacre is massacres.
Is massacre countable?
Massacre is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: massacre (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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