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Plural of skirt

regular plural

The plural of skirt is skirts.

Forms of skirt

Singularskirt /skɜːt/
Pluralskirts /skɝts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Skirts in a sentence

  • Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone!1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  • The railway, which is single track throughout, skirts the left bank of the estuary of the River Colne, and was washed out over a length of about three miles.1953 December, “Brightlingsea trains to be Restored”, in Railway Magazine, page 793
  • She became very good at mixing and matching skirts, blouses, and accessories to extend her fashion budget.From the entry mix and match
  • A-line is a classic silhouette for dresses and skirts.From the entry silhouette
  • The long skirts of the dancers swirled around them billowingly.From the entry billowingly

Meaning of skirt

  1. noun A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
  2. noun A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
  3. noun A loose edging to any part of a dress.

Full definition of skirt

Questions about the plural of skirt

What is the plural of skirt?
The plural of skirt is skirts.
Is skirt countable?
Skirt is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skirt (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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