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Plural of reaper

regular plural

The plural of reaper is reapers.

Forms of reaper

Singularreaper /ˈɹiːpɚ/
Pluralreapers
Countablecountable

Reapers in a sentence

  • Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  • It is known that it was a vintage song in France and Spain, and a reapers' song in Holland.1915, George Putnam Upton, The Song - Its Birth, Evolution, and Functions: with Numerous Selections from Old English Lyrics, page 82. From the entry vintage song
  • The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry perambulator
  • Then there is a second inburst of sunburnt sickle-men or reapers, as if in harvest-time; and the nymphs and the reapers join in a graceful dance.1914, David Masson, Rosaline Masson, Shakespeare Personally, page 188. From the entry inburst
  • A group of the reapers whom we had seen running from the fields were lying all pell-mell, their bodies crossing each other, at the bottom of it.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry pell-mell

Meaning of reaper

  1. noun One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
  2. noun A machine used to harvest crops.
  3. noun A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Full definition of reaper

Questions about the plural of reaper

What is the plural of reaper?
The plural of reaper is reapers.
Is reaper countable?
Reaper is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reaper (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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