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Plural of periodical

regular plural

The plural of periodical is periodicals.

Forms of periodical

Singularperiodical /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/
Pluralperiodicals /pɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩s/
Countablecountable

Periodicals in a sentence

  • Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.From the entry antislavery
  • Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97. From the entry pseudogothic
  • In printed periodicals, the use of figurines is recommended.2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21. From the entry dutch
  • The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.2009 January 24, Anne Karpf, The Guardian. From the entry captious
  • Chart 1 shows the change in the periodicals' attitude toward Homonism from a very negative appraisal in the mid-nineteenth century to a moderately favorable viewpoint in the mid-twentieth century.1961, Richard Olsen Cowan, Mormonism in National Periodicals, Stanford University, page 203. From the entry homonism

Meaning of periodical

  1. noun A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.
  2. noun A regularly issued thematic publication that contains the most current information in its field, often the primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in its field.
  3. adjective Periodic.

Full definition of periodical

Questions about the plural of periodical

What is the plural of periodical?
The plural of periodical is periodicals.
Is periodical countable?
Periodical is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: periodical (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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