pack – English noun declension

English noun forms of pack

Noun: pack
Singularpack
Pluralpacks

Sample Sentences

  • The horses carried the packs across the plain.
  • We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack. [1854, Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts:]
  • a pack of lies
  • a pack of complaints
  • We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
  • cut the pack
  • African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack. [2005, John D. Skinner, Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion:]
  • If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 117:]
  • They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots. [1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 154:]
  • a pack of thieves
  • "She will try, for she does not know that it is you who dropped the tallow on the shirt; but that can only be done by Christian folks, and not by a pack of trolls like we have in this place; and so I will say that I will not have anybody else for a bride except the one who can wash the shirt clean, and I know you can do that." [1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240:]
  • In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it. [1976, Freda Adler, Herbert Marcus Adler, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal, page 100:]
  • The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
  • And now they came to the edge of the pack, and beyond it they could see Shiny Wall looming, through mist, and snow, and storm. But the pack rolled horribly upon the swell, and the ice giants fought and roared, and leapt upon each other's backs, and ground each other to powder […] [1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:]
  • That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
  • The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
  • If the pack wasn't pummelling England, Handre Pollard kept delivering telling blows. [2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times:]
  • “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *pakkô
3. Proto-West Germanic *pakkō
4. Old English *pæcca?
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6. Proto-West Germanic *pakkō
7. Old Dutch *pakko
8. Middle Dutch pakbor.?
9. Middle English pak
10. English pack
11. From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”).
12. Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”). See: Middle English Nouns 'pak', Old English Nouns '*pæcca', Dutch Nouns 'pak', German Nouns 'Pack', Swedish Nouns 'packe', Icelandic Nouns 'pakka'.

Verbs referencing "pack"

French Nouns pack, Hungarian Nouns folpack.