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Plural of unicorn

regular plural

The plural of unicorn is unicorns.

Forms of unicorn

Singularunicorn /ˈjuː.nɪ.kɔːn/
Pluralunicorns
Countablecountable

Unicorns in a sentence

  • As the price of Web hosting plummeted and PCs and cell phones proliferated, college and grad-school dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could suddenly conjure unicorns on their laptops.2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
  • In May 2016, out of 163 global unicorns, China had 31, with a total valuation of $154 billion or about 26 percent of global unicorn valuation.2017, Pongsak Hoontrakul, Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia, Springer, →ISBN, page 273
  • No wonder they make up stories about angels and rainbow unicorns and cloud castles .2024, Eric Schlich, Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife. From the entry rainbow unicorns
  • Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns.2017, Daniel S. Traber, “Introduction: Kill Yr. Culture”, in Culturcide and Non-identity across American Culture, Lanham, Md.; London…. From the entry rainbows and unicorns
  • Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011. From the entry blessing

Meaning of unicorn

  1. noun A mythical, horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens.
  2. noun In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
  3. noun Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.

Full definition of unicorn

Questions about the plural of unicorn

What is the plural of unicorn?
The plural of unicorn is unicorns.
Is unicorn countable?
Unicorn is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unicorn (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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