double – English noun declension

English noun forms of double

Noun: double
Singulardouble
Pluraldoubles

Sample Sentences

  • I did double his sales this month.
  • Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
  • On second thought, make that a double.
  • I work a double this weekend.
  • According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:]
  • I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.
  • Before printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles.
  • The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
  • Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour. [2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well. [2005, Kenneth Brown, ...and I Survived: A Barnardo Boy's Memoir, page 55:]
  • The sine function returns a double.
  • DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season. [2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:]
  • In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes.
  • As for doubles, they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 196:]
  • The saxophone is a valuable and rewarding double, and opens up many gigs that aren’t available to players of just the “orchestral” woodwinds. [2020 January 4, Bret Pimentel, “Woodwind doubling and saxophone problems”, in Bret Pimentel, woodwinds:]
  • His fellows had chaffed him much upon the way that astute adventurer had bamboozled him, or, in their vernacular, "put the double on him," and vowed that all his energies should be devoted to a return match. [1880, Hawley Smart, False Cards, page 216:]
  • 'This is 007 speaking. This is an open line. It's an emergency. Can you hear me? Pass this on at once. 3030 was a double, working for Redland. [1953, Ian Fleming, “The Bleeding Heart”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 189:]
  • seeing a double of their kintype can feel threatening or disorienting, or just make them kind of uncomfortable if their kintype is very personal to them. [2018 January 2, fictkinhelp, Tumblr, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2026:]
  • Haven’t been in the yumeshipping space for all that long so I never really knew if I was sharing or not until I talked to a double. [2026 July 13, idiotcel, “Sharing yumeshippers, how do you view doubles?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2026:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
5. Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-plos
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwiplós
8. Proto-Italic *dwiplos
9. Proto-Italic *duplos
10. Latin duplus
11. Old French dobleder.
12. Middle English double
13. English double
14. From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple. See: Middle English Nouns 'double', Latin Nouns 'duplus'.

Verbs referencing "double"

Czech Nouns debl.