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Plural of tissue

regular plural

The plural of tissue is tissues.

Forms of tissue

Singulartissue /ˈtɪs.juː/
Pluraltissues
Countablecountable and uncountable

Tissues in a sentence

  • Lenehan came ourt of the inner office with Sport's tissues. —Who wants a dead cert for the Gold cup? he asked.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 123
  • If viewers remember a funny commercial was for tissues instead of the brand Puffs, then the ad has poor brand linkage.From the entry brand linkage
  • Nobody in Cameron's family has stretch marks, and he thinks it's because their tissues grow slowly enough for the skin to catch up.From the entry stretch mark
  • Biological examples include connective tissues (cartilage and tendons) and cellular cytoskeleta.2021, Michael Frame, Mathematical Models in the Biosciences 1, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 394. From the entry cytoskeleton
  • The soft and bony tissues underlying the borders were markedly damaged by presumed explosive injuries.2016 March, Amanda M McLemore et al., “Suicide by Bomb, with Decapitation”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry rare

Meaning of tissue

  1. noun Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.
  2. noun A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
  3. noun A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

Full definition of tissue

Questions about the plural of tissue

What is the plural of tissue?
The plural of tissue is tissues.
Is tissue countable?
Tissue is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tissue (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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