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Plural of morgue

regular plural

The plural of morgue is morgues.

Forms of morgue

Singularmorgue /mɔːɡ/
Pluralmorgues
Countablecountable

Morgues in a sentence

  • See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109
  • It was the height of Covid: New York had been decimated by the disease, makeshift morgues and a ghostly city abandoned by anyone with the means to leave.2022 August 25, Emily Maitlis, “I’m not a disgruntled ex-BBC employee – but when an agent of the Tory party decides the broadcaster’s…. From the entry bestloved

Meaning of morgue

  1. noun A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
  2. noun A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
  3. noun The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Full definition of morgue

Questions about the plural of morgue

What is the plural of morgue?
The plural of morgue is morgues.
Is morgue countable?
Morgue is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morgue (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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