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Plural of separate

regular plural

The plural of separate is separates.

Forms of separate

Singularseparate /ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/
Pluralseparates
Countablecountable

Separates in a sentence

  • French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian
  • A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.From the entry berm
  • He's missing that je ne sais qua which separates winners from champions.From the entry je ne sais qua
  • Language is what separates man and beast.From the entry beast
  • Only a few miles separates the villages.From the entry a few

Meaning of separate

  1. verb To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  2. verb To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
  3. verb To cause (things or people) to be separate.

Full definition of separate

Questions about the plural of separate

What is the plural of separate?
The plural of separate is separates.
Is separate countable?
Separate is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: separate (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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