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Plural of turret

regular plural

The plural of turret is turrets.

Forms of turret

Singularturret /ˈtʌɹɪt/
Pluralturrets
Countablecountable

Turrets in a sentence

  • Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
  • The one-metre-long model of the Bismarck was built exactly to scale, with moving turrets.From the entry to scale
  • Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.From the entry visitable
  • The few flags that could be seen above various turrets hung limply from their mastheads.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry shrewdity
  • An officer makes his way through the maelstrom to report a serious fire in one of the turrets.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 21:07 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry maelstrom

Meaning of turret

  1. noun A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
  2. noun A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
  3. noun A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

Full definition of turret

Questions about the plural of turret

What is the plural of turret?
The plural of turret is turrets.
Is turret countable?
Turret is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turret (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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