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Plural of typewriter

regular plural

The plural of typewriter is typewriters.

Forms of typewriter

Singulartypewriter [ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]
Pluraltypewriters
Countablecountable

Typewriters in a sentence

  • From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321
  • Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."2005, R. Derby Holmes, A Yankee in the Trenches, page 60
  • Now that word-processing has caught on, typewriters have gone the way of the dodo.From the entry go the way of the dodo
  • As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.From the entry fallback
  • They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence. From the entry ribbon

Meaning of typewriter

  1. noun A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
  2. noun One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
  3. noun A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).

Full definition of typewriter

Questions about the plural of typewriter

What is the plural of typewriter?
The plural of typewriter is typewriters.
Is typewriter countable?
Typewriter is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typewriter (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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