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Plural of water

regular plural

The plural of water is waters.

Forms of water

Singularwater /ˈwɔ.tɚ/
Pluralwaters /ˈwɔː.təz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Waters in a sentence

  • And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
  • The boat was found within the territorial waters.
  • In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.From the entry breath
  • The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.From the entry transparent
  • The flood waters are up again across large areas of the country.From the entry up

Meaning of water

  1. noun An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
  2. noun The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
  3. noun A serving of liquid water.

Full definition of water

Questions about the plural of water

What is the plural of water?
The plural of water is waters.
Is water countable?
Water is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: water (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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