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Plural of provost

regular plural

The plural of provost is provosts.

Forms of provost

Singularprovost /ˈpɹɒvəst/
Pluralprovosts
Countablecountable

Provosts in a sentence

  • While agreements are formalized through MOUs and legal counsel, teach-outs are often built on relationships — long-standing connections between presidents, provosts, deans, and enrollment leaders.2025 August 6, Jonathan Squire, “From Panic to Plan: Winning the Teach Out Moment”, in Volt, voltedu.com, retrieved 23 Mar 2023. From the entry teach-outs

Meaning of provost

  1. noun A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
  2. noun The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
  3. noun The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.

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Questions about the plural of provost

What is the plural of provost?
The plural of provost is provosts.
Is provost countable?
Provost is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: provost (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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