cages
SayKAYJ-iz/ˈkeɪd͡ʒɪz/
- 1Plural of cage.
Inspectors found the dogs crammed into rusty cages at the back of the barn.
Old habits can become cages we hardly notice we are living in.
Note
Each meaning of the singular has a plural here, and two can catch a reader off guard: in derogatory US slang cages are cars, and in slang more generally they are prison cells. Elsewhere the plural names the passenger compartments of elevators and the goals of a game. Used figuratively, it covers whatever hems a person in, old habits included.
cages is a form of cage
cage, noun: An enclosure made of bars, usually used to hold animals. Full entry
- Forms
- cagecages plural
- Spelling
- cage → cages: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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