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Plural of picnic

regular plural

The plural of picnic is picnics.

Forms of picnic

Singularpicnic /ˈpɪknɪk/
Pluralpicnics /ˈpɪknɪks/
Countablecountable

Picnics in a sentence

  • Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams.1923, The National Provisioner, page 50
  • Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone.1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53
  • Picnics are like parachutes: to avoid surprises, you should always pack your own.2021, David Profumo, The Lightning Thread. From the entry farctate
  • I love this with schnitzelly things but it’s also good for barbecues and picnics.2006, Tessa Kiros, “Potato & yoghurt salad”, in Apples for Jam: Recipes for Life, Millers Point, N.S.W.; London: Murdoch Books, →ISBN…. From the entry schnitzelly
  • Molly worked at her picnics like she tended her roses or worked on her veggie garden, breathlessly.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 11. From the entry veggie garden

Meaning of picnic

  1. noun An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
  2. noun The meal eaten at such a gathering.
  3. noun An easy or pleasant task.

Full definition of picnic

Questions about the plural of picnic

What is the plural of picnic?
The plural of picnic is picnics.
Is picnic countable?
Picnic is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picnic (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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