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Plural of sand

regular plural

The plural of sand is sands.

Forms of sand

Singularsand /sænd/
Pluralsands
Countablecountable and uncountable

Sands in a sentence

  • The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
  • Cf. sands of time (idiom)
  • Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?From the entry number
  • The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.From the entry sands
  • We were lost in the sands of Arabia.From the entry sands

Meaning of sand

  1. noun Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
  2. noun A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
  3. noun A beach or other mass of sand.

Full definition of sand

Questions about the plural of sand

What is the plural of sand?
The plural of sand is sands.
Is sand countable?
Sand is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sand (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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