hairs
- 1Plural of hair.
A few loose hairs clung to the sleeve of his dark jacket.
She plucked the stray hairs caught in the bristles of the brush.
Note
A plural that belongs only to the countable meanings of hair: single strands on a sleeve, the slender outgrowths on an insect or spider, fine filaments projecting from any surface. The mass meaning, the covering of a head or body, takes no plural in ordinary use. So she has gray hair, but she found three gray hairs. Choosing the plural signals that you are counting strands, not describing a head.
hairs is a form of hair
hair, noun: The fine threadlike strands that grow from the skin of people and animals, especially on the head; also a single such strand. Full entry
- Forms
- hairhairs plural
- Spelling
- hair → hairs: add -s
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