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Plural of overcoat

regular plural

The plural of overcoat is overcoats.

Forms of overcoat

Singularovercoat /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
Pluralovercoats
Countablecountable

Overcoats in a sentence

  • Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • Double-breasted caped ‘Inverness’ overcoats and short fly-fronted coats in dark wool cloth were popular.1992, Sue Atkinson, “A brief history of fashion”, in Making and Dressing Dolls House Dolls in ¹⁄₁₂ Scale, David & Charles, published 1999…. From the entry countrywear
  • Wearing their Jermyn Street winter-sports kit of last year under common privates' overcoats."1915, Berta Ruck, The Boy With Wings. From the entry ekkers
  • Our water - proof overcoats were worn full of holes and we were drenched to the skin.1907, Eclectic Magazine, page 74. From the entry paludinous
  • In early February the North China Marines arrived, bag and baggage, decked out with full uniforms, overcoats and fur-lined hats.2011, Stanford D. Carman, Wake And Reunion, page 125. From the entry bag and baggage

Meaning of overcoat

  1. noun A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
  2. noun An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
  3. verb To apply an exterior coating to.

Full definition of overcoat

Questions about the plural of overcoat

What is the plural of overcoat?
The plural of overcoat is overcoats.
Is overcoat countable?
Overcoat is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcoat (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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