backdrops
- 1Plural of backdrop.
The photographer kept a dozen rolled backdrops in her studio closet.
Snowy mountains served as backdrops for most of the film's outdoor shots.
Note
A regular plural that serves every kind of backdrop: painted cloths at the back of a stage, photographic backgrounds, the settings of a film or play, and figurative background situations. The same spelling is also the present-tense verb used with he, she or it, as in a ridge of pines backdrops the lake. That verb is transitive, so it always takes an object naming what is set off.
A ridge of pines backdrops the lake in every postcard of the town.
The old cathedral backdrops the square, framing each festival photograph.
backdrops is a form of backdrop
backdrop, noun: Any background situation or set of circumstances against which events take place. Full entry
- Forms
- backdropbackdrops plural
- Spelling
- backdrop → backdrops: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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