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Plural of utterance

regular plural

The plural of utterance is utterances.

Forms of utterance

Singularutterance /ˈʌtəɹəns/
Pluralutterances /ˈʌtəɹənsəz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Utterances in a sentence

  • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, “XXVA”, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203
  • These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.From the entry grammatical
  • A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".From the entry empractical
  • It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.2025 September 12, Glenn Thrush, Devlin Barrett, Adam Goldman, “Patel and F.B.I. Face Scrutiny as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large”, in The…. From the entry profanity
  • We define didactive utterances to mean teacher utterances on the nature of (mathematical) knowledge.2010, Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth, Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades, page 297. From the entry didactive

Meaning of utterance

  1. noun An act of, or the process of, uttering.
  2. noun An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
  3. noun The ability to speak.

Full definition of utterance

Questions about the plural of utterance

What is the plural of utterance?
The plural of utterance is utterances.
Is utterance countable?
Utterance is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: utterance (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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