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Plural of windscreen

regular plural

The plural of windscreen is windscreens.

Forms of windscreen

Singularwindscreen /ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/
Pluralwindscreens
Countablecountable

Windscreens in a sentence

  • The latter produced a handsome front end, clearly based on the Glasgow suburban 'Blue Train' electric multiple units, with wrap-around windscreens.2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 59. From the entry wrap-around
  • Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have all added to safety, but how?1996, Chris Butlin, Maureen Maybank, Physics on the move, page 31. From the entry squashable
  • We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33. From the entry fail

Meaning of windscreen

  1. noun A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.
  2. noun A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.
  3. noun A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

Full definition of windscreen

Questions about the plural of windscreen

What is the plural of windscreen?
The plural of windscreen is windscreens.
Is windscreen countable?
Windscreen is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windscreen (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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