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Plural of tunic

regular plural

The plural of tunic is tunics.

Forms of tunic

Singulartunic /ˈtjuːnɪk/
Pluraltunics
Countablecountable

Tunics in a sentence

  • Carmine streaks stained their limbs, their tunics and cataphracts; but little of the blood was theirs.2013, Stephen R[eeder] Donaldson, “Shamed Choices”, in The Last Dark (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; book 4), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cataphract
  • They are to be uncoffled, given tunics and stand in orderly rows until told otherwise.2008, A. Bradbury, Emancipator. From the entry uncoffle
  • Over kirtles, women wore a variety of outer tunics, such as the houppelande, or a sleeveless tabard or pelisse.2013, Katherine L. French, “Genders and Material Culture”, in Judith M[acKenzie] Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras, editors, The Oxford Handbook…. From the entry kirtle
  • Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt′s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.1974, Thomas Keneally, Blood Red, Sister Rose, page 82. From the entry piker
  • It was not, by a long way, every pageanteer who could afford to order or hire robes, cloaks, tunics, head-dresses from the professionals.1940, Berta Ruck, Money Isn't Everything, page 122. From the entry pageanteer

Meaning of tunic

  1. noun A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
  2. noun Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.
  3. noun Synonym of gymslip.

Full definition of tunic

Questions about the plural of tunic

What is the plural of tunic?
The plural of tunic is tunics.
Is tunic countable?
Tunic is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tunic (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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