breasts
The plural of "breast" is breasts.
Most English nouns form the plural by adding -s, and breast follows this rule.
Meaning: the front part of the chest, or a cut of meat from a bird (noun)
How does it change in a sentence?
Use a plural verb with breasts: the breasts are. The possessive plural adds only an apostrophe: breasts'.
How do you pronounce it?
breast is pronounced /bɹɛst/. The plural ending sounds like /s/.
What mistakes should you avoid?
Do not use an apostrophe to make a plural. breasts means more than one, while an apostrophe shows that something belongs to someone.
Did you know?
- The -s plural goes back to the Old English ending -as, which belonged to only one group of nouns, as in stānas, "stones". By the end of the Middle Ages it had spread to almost every noun.
Examples in context
- Grill the chicken breasts for ten minutes.Singular: Grill the chicken breast for ten minutes.
- Both breasts were sore after the birth.Singular: One breast was sore after the birth.
