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Plural of schooner

regular plural

The plural of schooner is schooners.

Forms of schooner

Singularschooner /skuːnə(ɹ)/
Pluralschooners
Countablecountable

Schooners in a sentence

  • In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.2005, Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World, page xxi
  • In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled schooners are harder to come by.2007, Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat, page 240
  • The heavy and boat-shaped Conestoga wagon should not be confused with the lighter and cheaper prairie schooners that largely replaced them.From the entry Conestoga wagon
  • With only the most rudimentary navigational equipment, courageous captains regularly put their small schooners into doghole ports under extremely difficult conditions.2011, Stephen W. Hinch, Hiking & Adventure Guide to the Sonoma Coast & Russian River, page 12. From the entry doghole
  • “The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.2011, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry Lunenburg cure

Meaning of schooner

  1. noun A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
  2. noun A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
  3. noun A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).

Full definition of schooner

Questions about the plural of schooner

What is the plural of schooner?
The plural of schooner is schooners.
Is schooner countable?
Schooner is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schooner (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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