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Plural of namesake

regular plural

The plural of namesake is namesakes.

Forms of namesake

Singularnamesake /ˈneɪmseɪk/
Pluralnamesakes
Countablecountable

Namesakes in a sentence

  • Look at our namesakes too.2006 October 28, Laura Jones, “Why I'm keeping up with the Joneses...”, in The Guardian

Meaning of namesake

  1. noun An entity that lends its name to another entity.
  2. noun A person with the same name as another.
  3. noun One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.

Full definition of namesake

Questions about the plural of namesake

What is the plural of namesake?
The plural of namesake is namesakes.
Is namesake countable?
Namesake is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: namesake (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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