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Plural of washerwoman

irregular plural

The plural of washerwoman is washerwomen.

Forms of washerwoman

Singularwasherwoman
Pluralwasherwomen
Countablecountable

Washerwomen in a sentence

  • We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, pages 177–178. From the entry aspire

Meaning of washerwoman

  1. noun A woman who washes people's laundry.
  2. noun A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.
  3. noun A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).

Full definition of washerwoman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of washerwoman

What is the plural of washerwoman?
The plural of washerwoman is washerwomen.
Is washerwoman countable?
Washerwoman is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: washerwoman (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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