Plural of plum
regular plural
The plural of plum is plums.
Forms of plum
| Singular | plum /plʌm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | plums /plʌmz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Plums in a sentence
- The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
- Some fruit trees, like plums, do well in damp soil conditions.2012, Terri Reid, “Starting an Orchard”, in The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid: A Back-to-basics Manual for Independent Living…. From the entry apple
- Both of them spoke with British aristocratic plums in their mouths.2011, James Edmiston, The Sterling Years: Small Arms and the Men, page 105. From the entry plum in one's mouth
- Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants, loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.2010, John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain, unnumbered page. From the entry red currant
- Hand fruits include apples, oranges, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, or small bananas.2008, Heather Bauer, The Wall Street Diet, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry hand fruit
Meaning of plum
- noun An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
- noun A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- noun Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).
Questions about the plural of plum
- What is the plural of plum?
- The plural of plum is plums.
- Is plum countable?
- Plum is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plum (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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