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Plural of meander

regular plural

The plural of meander is meanders.

Forms of meander

Singularmeander /miˈæn.də(ɹ)/
Pluralmeanders
Countablecountable

Meanders in a sentence

  • the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
  • An oxbow lake is a crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.From the entry valleyed
  • Bujalski has perfect pitch: an instinct for how language meanders, and the lacunae it circles around.2015, Sophia Nguyen, “Mumblecore's Maestro: The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski”, in Harvard Magazine, September-October 2015. From the entry perfect pitch
  • She fools around, meanders, and takes time for feelings and not just ideas.2002, Elijah Mirochnik, Debora Claiborne Sherman, Passion and Pedagogy, page 354. From the entry moodle
  • The new paper explores the impacts on crop production when meanders in the jet stream (Rossby waves) become stuck.2023 July 15, George Monbiot, “With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Rossby wave

Meaning of meander

  1. noun One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
  2. noun One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.
  3. noun A tortuous or winding journey.

Full definition of meander

Questions about the plural of meander

What is the plural of meander?
The plural of meander is meanders.
Is meander countable?
Meander is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meander (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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