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Plural of tanner

regular plural

The plural of tanner is tanners.

Forms of tanner

Singulartanner /ˈtænɚ/
Pluraltanners
Countablecountable

Tanners in a sentence

  • There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7
  • There are also observations in the Talmud that, e.g., tanners stink.2011 May 31, Yisroel Markov, “Leftwing anti-semitism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry tahor
  • He captured the contrast between the tanners’ workshops and shanties flanking the Dâmbovița and the imposing public buildings recently erected nearby.2013, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, “Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers”, in Micheline Nilsen…. From the entry Dâmbovița
  • There were some leather-workers, as 4 or 5 curriers or tanners, 2 kissers, 6 or 7 saddlers or fusters.1951, Eilert Ekwall, Two early London subsidy rolls, page 86. From the entry fuster
  • "You don't mean tanners by any chance?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry exchequer

Meaning of tanner

  1. noun A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
  2. noun A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
  3. noun A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.

Full definition of tanner

Questions about the plural of tanner

What is the plural of tanner?
The plural of tanner is tanners.
Is tanner countable?
Tanner is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tanner (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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