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Plural of sloop

regular plural

The plural of sloop is sloops.

Forms of sloop

Singularsloop /sluːp/
Pluralsloops
Countablecountable

Sloops in a sentence

  • Symmetrophiles calibrated to the milieu were skeletal sloops rigged with prettily cut jibs and tawdry spinnakers.2016, Frank Morris, The Pearl in the Diamond World, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry symmetrophile

Meaning of sloop

  1. noun A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
  2. noun A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
  3. noun A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Full definition of sloop

Questions about the plural of sloop

What is the plural of sloop?
The plural of sloop is sloops.
Is sloop countable?
Sloop is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sloop (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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