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sunscreens

sunscreens is the plural of sunscreen.

sunscreens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sunscreen.

Meaning of sunscreen

Noun

sunscreen (countable and uncountable, plural sunscreens)

  1. A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.
    • Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
      "Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy, unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.2009, Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon, page 55

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Questions about sunscreens

What is sunscreens the plural of?
Sunscreens is the plural of sunscreen.

Words near sunscreens in the dictionary

  1. sunscalding
  2. sunscalds
  3. sunscreen
  4. sunscreened
  5. sunscreening
  6. sunscreens
  7. Sunscrit
  8. sunseed
  9. sunseeds
  10. sunseeker
  11. sunseekers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunscreens (page history and authors); sunscreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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