project – English noun declension

English noun forms of project

Noun: project
Singularproject
Pluralprojects

Sample Sentences

  • projects of happiness devised by human reason [a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation:]
  • Rainbow, […]came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares [1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22:]
  • The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain. [2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
  • Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
  • Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects [1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul:]
  • Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets [2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock:]
  • a man given to projects
  • Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing. [2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, “Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more”, in ESPN FC:]
  • Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't. [2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, “Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch”, in WNYT:]

Etymology

1. From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
2. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ), прики́дка (prikídka) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)); набро́сок (nabrósok) (akin to броса́ть (brosátʹ)). See: Latin Nouns 'prōiectus'.