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Plural of tun

regular plural

The plural of tun is tuns.

Forms of tun

Singulartun /tʌn/
Pluraltuns
Countablecountable

Plural of tun by meaning

  1. a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt...: tuns
  2. a part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal...: tuns or tunob

Meaning of tun

  1. noun A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.).
  2. noun A fermenting vat.
  3. noun A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.

Full definition of tun

Questions about the plural of tun

What is the plural of tun?
The plural of tun is tuns.
Is tun countable?
Tun is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tun (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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