detentions
- 1Plural of detention.
Repeated tardiness earned him three detentions in a single month.
The school handed out more detentions than usual after the disruptive assembly.
Note
A plural that only works where detention can be counted: separate spells of custody before trial, or individual punishments handed to a student. The general act or state of detaining has no plural. There you write simply detention, as in held in detention. In law the plural can also count instances of bare physical control, meaning holding something without the intention that would make it possession.
detentions is a form of detention
detention, noun: A school punishment requiring a student to report to a set room during recess or after hours to do schoolwork or busywork. Full entry
- Forms
- detentiondetentions plural
- Spelling
- detention → detentions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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