turn – English noun declension

English noun forms of turn

Noun: turn
Singularturn
Pluralturns

Sample Sentences

  • Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where[…]lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder. [1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Let's take a turn in the garden.
  • "I've made a turn round the place, sir, and the light was on," was the reply. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
  • They took turns playing with the new toy.
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where[…]lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder. [1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
  • They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
  • turn of the century
  • […] by cajolery and innuendo she had persuaded him to go to the picture palace to be cheered up, and as it was now on the turn of eleven he might be expected back at any moment. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
  • By about 1300, Hungary's population was three times what it had been at the turn of the millenium. [1990, Ferenc Glatz, Etudes historiques hongroises 1990: Ethnicity and society in Hungary:]
  • […]As long as ocean water's salt, And birch-trees feel the winds' assault, And crows build nests at winter's turn, Darling, I shall never return. [1997, A People's Poetry: Hen Benillion, Seren Books:]
  • Writers arrive, in extremely small numbers, only at the turn of the Victorian era into the Edwardian era when modern Pan-Africanism was being born. [2020 December 17, Colin Chambers, Black and Asian Theatre In Britain: A History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1835:]
  • I've had a funny turn.
  • I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young Simmons gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, […] [1865 September 23, “Mrs. Brown and the Emperor of the French”, in Fun, London: Published (for the proprietors) by Thomas Baker, →OCLC, page 17:]
  • 'Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt it in your marrow kind of cold and thin.' [1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 78–79:]
  • She took a turn for the worse.
  • One good turn deserves another.
  • I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity[…].
  • It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative turn, for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips. (For the Term of His Natural Life) [1875, Marcus Clarke, “Typhus Fever”, in His Natural Life [For the Term of His Natural Life], volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son, →OCLC, page 100:]
  • Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. [1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:]
  • There are usually at least two jobbers who specialise in the leading stocks, and this acts to keep the jobber's turn to a reasonable amount […] [1977, Michael Arthur Firth, Valuation of Shares and the Efficient-markets Theory, page 11:]

Etymology

Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn. See: Latin Nouns 'tornus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τόρνος'.

Verbs referencing "turn"

Finnish Nouns turn, German Nouns Törn, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tørn, Swedish Nouns törn.