pace – English noun declension

English noun forms of pace

Noun: pace
Singularpace
Pluralpaces

Sample Sentences

  • Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
  • I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
  • Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation. [2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:]
  • For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:]
  • The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles. [1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:]
  • He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.
  • […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride. [1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company, published 1952, page 29:]
  • A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions. [2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist:]
  • Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep. [2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200:]
  • we see and then imitate the pros moving about as quickly as a pace of asses pulling cannon through the Pripet Marshes. [1974, Al Barkow, Golf's Golden Grind: A History of the PGA Tour, Burford Books, page 41:]
  • But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso. See: Middle English Nouns 'pase', Latin Nouns 'passus'.

Verbs referencing "pace"

Spanish Nouns paso, Finnish Nouns peesi.