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Plural of nest

regular plural

The plural of nest is nests.

Forms of nest

Singularnest /nɛst/
Pluralnests
Countablecountable

Nests in a sentence

  • The technology seeks to identify the birds' nests on the ground.2020 August 12, “Network News: Drones locate skylark nests”, in Rail, page 23. From the entry computer-aided design
  • At ten years old he started dabbling in oology, the collecting of eggs and nests.2016, Douglas Brinkley, “‘All that is in Me Goes back to the Hudson’”, in Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of…. From the entry oology
  • It makes me think of wasps, chewing up wood and making their paper honeycomb nests.2011 January 25, Dave, “3d printing paper molds”, in Hive76 Discussion (Google Groups), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025. From the entry 'pedia
  • Bird's nest fungi are funky and fascinating; they look for all the world like tiny bird nests.2010, Michael Kuo, Andy Methven, 32: Cyathus striatus (Hudson) Willdenow: 100 Cool Mushrooms, page 65. From the entry bird's nest fungus
  • The birds squawked desperately, their nests high up in the inaccessible shrubs.2010, Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, page 104. From the entry jungular

Meaning of nest

  1. noun A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  2. noun A place used by a mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  3. noun A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

Full definition of nest

Questions about the plural of nest

What is the plural of nest?
The plural of nest is nests.
Is nest countable?
Nest is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nest (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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