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Plural of shore

regular plural

The plural of shore is shores.

Forms of shore

Singularshore /ʃɔː/
Pluralshores /ʃɔɹz/
Countablecountable

Shores in a sentence

  • The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.
  • If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.From the entry dissever
  • Previously, two other pigs with swine fever virus had drifted onto the shores of Kinmen.2019 March 18, Olivia Li, “Another Dead Pig That Drifted Ashore in Taiwan Found to Have African Swine Fever”, in The Epoch Times, archived…. From the entry Chukuang
  • Cold War-era steel barricades on the shores of Taiwan’s Lieyu Island.2016 June 7, Michael Forsythe, “Caught Between China and Taiwan, and Leaning Toward China”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)…. From the entry Lieyu
  • In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea from S.E.2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry mist belt

Meaning of shore

  1. noun Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
  2. noun Land, usually near a port.
  3. verb To arrive at the shore.

Full definition of shore

Questions about the plural of shore

What is the plural of shore?
The plural of shore is shores.
Is shore countable?
Shore is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shore (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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