armies
- 1Plural of army.
The treaty required both armies to withdraw from the border.
Volunteer armies swelled the ranks during the early months of the war.
Note
A regular plural, built the way English treats a final y after a consonant: the y becomes i and takes -es. The plural carries every sense of army, including the figurative ones, so armies of volunteers or armies of ants are as natural as rival armies facing each other across a border. When army names a large tactical unit within a vast military, it is often capitalized.
Armies of volunteers cleared the beach after the storm.
Armies of ants marched across the kitchen floor.
armies is a form of army
army, noun: A large organized military force that fights on land, especially a country's permanent land forces as an institution. Full entry
- Forms
- armyarmies plural
- Spelling
- army → armies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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