counterparts
- 1Plural of counterpart.
Foreign ministers held talks with their counterparts across the negotiating table.
Modern electric motors are far quieter than their gasoline-powered counterparts.
Note
The plural is regular: the stem stays as it is and simply takes -s. The plural suits the word, since several of its meanings come in pairs: the two halves of a fossil split along its plane, or the duplicate copies of a legal document. It sits naturally after a possessive, as in their counterparts. The same spelling also serves the verb counterpart, "to counterbalance," as its present tense with he, she or it.
counterparts is a form of counterpart
counterpart, noun: A person or thing whose functions or characteristics correspond to those of another. Full entry
- Forms
- counterpartcounterparts plural
- Spelling
- counterpart → counterparts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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