Plural of matron

Forms of matron

Matrons in a sentence

• Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 237
• Male characters showing up as young heroes-in-the-making or sage old doddards, and female characters being maidens, matrons or crones?2018, Neil Foster MacPhail, Beowulf and Other Tales, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 241. From the entry doddard
• The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them.2004, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Master, New York: Scribner, page 26. From the entry dinner
• Outside in a spacious, leafy courtyard complete with table service, Double Bay matrons rub shoulders with trendies and gentilshommes of every description.1985 January 15, Geoffrey Stackhouse, “Fast Licks”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,880, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Good…. From the entry gentilhomme
• This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . .1936 December 21, “Foreign News: Gloucester”, in Time, retrieved 02 Jul 2015. From the entry put up to

Meaning of matron

1. noun A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
2. noun A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
3. noun A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.

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Questions about the plural of matron

What is the plural of matron?

The plural of matron is matrons.

Is matron countable?

Matron is a countable noun.