rock – English noun declension

English noun forms of rock

Noun: rock
Singularrock
Pluralrocks

Sample Sentences

  • The face of the cliff is solid rock.
  • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, page 28:]
  • This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands. [2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:]
  • The ship crashed on the rocks.
  • This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostly rocks that can reach several stories high. [2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:]
  • Some fool has thrown a rock through my window.
  • Look at the size of that rock on her finger!
  • I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops [1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e and Diddy:]
  • Here she is, a billionaire’s wife, yet gripped by constant social anxiety, forever agonising that she’d worn her best rocks to an event that actually called for “patio jewellery” (necklaces $1m or under). [2025 June 27, Marina Hyde, “Anna Wintour has spent decades dictating a certain look for the super-rich. Then along came Lauren”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • In an Instagram post on Monday, Georgina Rodríguez, the longtime girlfriend of the soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, shared a photo of a gigantic rock on her ring finger. [2025 August 12, Sadiba Hasan, “Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez Are Engaged. All Eyes Are on the Ring.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2025:]
  • The captain named it Pearl Rock after the rising sun illuminated the surface of the island.
  • And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:18:]
  • 1991, Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman, Soapdish, Paramount Pictures,
  • Celeste Talbert: She is my rock, my right hand.
  • Being the best husband I can to my fantastic wife, Vic, who has been a rock by my side, through good times and bad. [2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech:]
  • I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
  • While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!
  • With my little stick of Blackpool rock/Along the promenade I stroll. [1937 January 24, “With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock”performed by George Formby:]
  • Most Kenyans blithely assumed that if the British high commissioner said something, it represented British policy, a thought-through position running from one end of government to the other, like the lettering in a stick of Brighton rock. [2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:]
  • I ain't guilty, ‘cause even though I sell rocks / It feels good puttin' money in your mailbox [1995, “Dear Mama”, in Me Against the World, performed by 2Pac:]
  • When I necked five-quid bottles of vodka, I did not read the label. When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test. [2014, Russell Brand, “Prologue”, in Revolution, →ISBN, page xiii:]
  • We ordered rock and chips to take away.
  • Yo homie, pass the rock!
  • It [the original Space Jam limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan’s swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put the rock through the net. [2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club:]
  • Now, you should never make the last out of an inning at third, and when a player does it, everyone knows he pulled a rock. [2014, Joe Morgan, Richard Lally, Baseball For Dummies, page 227:]
  • It was easily possible to double the cost of a CB rig just by adding all of the "rocks" necessary to do the job. [1980, Joseph J. Carr, The Complete Handbook of Radio Receivers, page 199:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Medieval Latin roccabor.?
3. Old English *rocc
4. Early Medieval Latin rocca
5. Anglo-Norman roquebor.
6. Middle English rokke
7. English rock
8. Inherited from Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”). One suggestion is that it derives from Vulgar Latin *rupica, from rupes (compare rupico). See: Middle English Nouns 'rocke', Middle English Nouns 'rocke', Old English Nouns '*rocc', Old English Nouns 'stānrocc', French Nouns 'roc'.

Verbs referencing "rock"

Catalan Nouns rock, French Nouns rock, English Nouns roche, French Nouns roche, Finnish Nouns rokki, Portuguese Nouns rocha, Ukrainian Nouns рок.