Plural of moat
regular plural
The plural of moat is moats.
Forms of moat
| Singular | moat /məʊt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | moats |
| Countable | countable |
Moats in a sentence
- “I think ‘moats’ are lame,” Mr.2018 May 7, Andrew Ross Sorkin, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Wants to Fill Warren Buffett’s ‘Moat’ With Candy, but It Still Holds Water”...
- Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg. From the entry samey
- If we can keep finding 'fatter and fatter' Gaussian moats surrounding the origin, then the prime-hiker will have to keep taking longer and longer steps.2006, Deanna Haunsperger, Stephen Kennedy, The Edge of the Universe: Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons, page 49. From the entry Gaussian moat
- Ancient cities, on the other hand, were fortresses based upon technologies of obstruction designed to freeze and arrest such dromospheric assaults with battlements, turrets, archers, moats, parapets, bastions, etc.2012, John David Ebert, The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times, →ISBN. From the entry dromospheric
Meaning of moat
- noun A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
- noun A characteristic of a business that enhances its resilience against competitive pressures, arising from the inherent nature of its products, services, brand, or other structural advantages.
- noun A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
Questions about the plural of moat
- What is the plural of moat?
- The plural of moat is moats.
- Is moat countable?
- Moat is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: moat (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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