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Plural of symbol

regular plural

The plural of symbol is symbols.

Forms of symbol

Singularsymbol /ˈsɪmbəl/
Pluralsymbols /ˈsɪmbəlz/
Countablecountable

Symbols in a sentence

  • Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
  • The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.
  • Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).From the entry black
  • The strongest passwords are those which mix numbers and letters, upper case and lower case, and symbols.From the entry lower case
  • While the initiated easily understand the symbols, they are wholly inaccessible to outsiders.From the entry outsider

Meaning of symbol

  1. noun A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
  2. noun A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
  3. noun A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.

Full definition of symbol

Questions about the plural of symbol

What is the plural of symbol?
The plural of symbol is symbols.
Is symbol countable?
Symbol is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: symbol (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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