dads
DADZ/dædz/
- 1Plural of dad.
Several dads volunteered to chaperone the field trip.
The new parenting class drew a roomful of nervous first-time dads.
Note
A regular -s plural that gathers more than fathers. The same spelling also serves the rarer nouns that share the form dad: a lump or piece, a blow, and a variant spelling of daad, the Arabic letter. In everyday use it almost always means fathers and keeps the informal tone of the singular. In formal prose, fathers is the neutral choice.
dads is a form of dad
dad, noun: Informal word for a father, also used as a name when speaking to your own father. Full entry
- Forms
- daddads plural
- Spelling
- dad → dads: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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