Noun: ounce
| Singular | ounce |
| Plural | ounces |
Sample Sentences
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He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.
Nouns inflected like ounce
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ounce, unce, from Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“Roman ounce, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of a, one, inch, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah. See: Middle English Nouns '
ounce', Latin Nouns '
uncia'.
Verbs referencing "ounce"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
ounce, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
ounce, Catalan Nouns
onça, Portuguese Nouns
onça, Galician Nouns
onza, Spanish Nouns
onza, Zulu Nouns
i-awunsi.