Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of threshold

regular plural

The plural of threshold is thresholds.

Forms of threshold

Singularthreshold /ˈθɹɛʃəʊld/
Pluralthresholds
Countablecountable

Thresholds in a sentence

  • The poem re-enchants the bull by setting imaginary walls and thresholds around it.From the entry re-enchant
  • Different excitation thresholds are necessary to basculate the cluster forth and back.2009 April, M Popescu, A Velea, A Lörinczi, F Sava, “Commution-A New Concept in Switching Materials”, in Journal of Ovonic Research…. From the entry basculate
  • Physiological thresholds can differ from behavioral thresholds by ±15–20 dB HL.2006, Patricia Spencer, Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, →ISBN. From the entry overamplify
  • League officials set the thresholds for suspension — on the seventh technical foul or the fourth flagrant-foul point — using a semiscientific approach.2009 June 4, Howard Beck, “Numbers Crunched for Discipline Rules”, in New York Times. From the entry semiscientific
  • I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 303. From the entry stupa

Meaning of threshold

  1. noun The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
  2. noun An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
  3. noun Any end or boundary.

Full definition of threshold

Questions about the plural of threshold

What is the plural of threshold?
The plural of threshold is thresholds.
Is threshold countable?
Threshold is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: threshold (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Plural of threshold.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/threshold. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.