Plural of salve
regular plural
The plural of salve is salves.
Forms of salve
| Singular | salve /sɑːv/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | salves /sæ(l)vz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Salves in a sentence
- These thick, hydrating salves are sooo soothing for chapped lips.2023 November 9, Daisy Maldonado, Hannah Oh, “All the Juicy Deets on Glossier’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals (!!)”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry tyvm
- No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363. From the entry quinine
- The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71. From the entry cruor
Meaning of salve
- noun An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- noun Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
- verb To calm or assuage.
Questions about the plural of salve
- What is the plural of salve?
- The plural of salve is salves.
- Is salve countable?
- Salve is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: salve (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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