accidents
- 1Plural of accident.
Heavy rain led to a string of accidents on the interstate.
Workplace accidents dropped sharply after the new safety rules took effect.
Note
The plural is formed regularly with -s, and it carries every countable meaning of accident: crashes on the road, mishaps at work, chance events in general, and the philosopher's nonessential properties of a thing. The one meaning it cannot take is chance itself, which has no plural. Something happens by accident, never by accidents. When the plural appears, the speaker is counting events or properties, not invoking luck.
accidents is a form of accident
accident, noun: An unexpected and unintended event that causes damage or injury, especially a crash involving a vehicle, aircraft, or other transport. Full entry
- Forms
- accidentaccidents plural
- Spelling
- accident → accidents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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