ads
- 1Plural of ad.
Streaming services often interrupt films with ads every few minutes.
Local businesses placed ads in the community newspaper before the holidays.
Note
A short plural that does more than one job. Alongside the commercial sense, the same letters pluralize several initialisms: assistant directors, airworthiness directives, auxiliary destroyers in the US Navy, and antidepressants. Context decides which is meant. The initialism for Alzheimer's disease is the exception: it is uncountable and takes no plural, so it never hides behind this spelling.
ads is a form of ad
ad, noun: Short for athletic director: the official who runs the sports programs of a school or college. Full entry
- Forms
- adads plural, plural
- Spelling
- ad → ads: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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