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Plural of onion

regular plural

The plural of onion is onions.

Forms of onion

Singularonion /ˈʌnjən/
Pluralonions /ˈʌn.jənz/
Countablecountable

Onions in a sentence

  • My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
  • Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 158
  • Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.From the entry skillet
  • I jazzed up a supermarket pizza with olives and fried onions.From the entry jazz up
  • The onions are diced, whereas the carrots are sliced on the bias.From the entry diced

Meaning of onion

  1. noun A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. noun The bulb of such a plant.
  3. noun Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.

Full definition of onion

Questions about the plural of onion

What is the plural of onion?
The plural of onion is onions.
Is onion countable?
Onion is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: onion (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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