Noun: lily
| Singular | lily |
| Plural | lilies |
Sample Sentences
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The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden. [2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025:]
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But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west. [1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:]
Nouns inflected like lily
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more. See: Middle English Nouns '
lilie', Old English Nouns '
lilie', Latin Nouns '
līlia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
λείριον'.
Verbs referencing "lily"
Greek Nouns
λουλούδι, Galician Nouns
lirio, Spanish Nouns
lirio.