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Plural of porcelain

regular plural

The plural of porcelain is porcelains.

Forms of porcelain

Singularporcelain /ˈpɔːsəlɪn/
Pluralporcelains
Countablecountable and uncountable

Porcelains in a sentence

  • The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.

Meaning of porcelain

  1. noun A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
  2. noun Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
  3. noun Synonym of kaolin: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.

Full definition of porcelain

Questions about the plural of porcelain

What is the plural of porcelain?
The plural of porcelain is porcelains.
Is porcelain countable?
Porcelain is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porcelain (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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