disasters
- 1Plural of disaster.
Aid workers responded to three separate disasters within a single month.
Earthquakes and tsunamis rank among the deadliest natural disasters on record.
Note
A regular plural that counts what the singular can also leave uncounted. When disaster is a mass noun (heading for disaster, ending in disaster), it has no plural. The -s form appears only once each catastrophe is a separate event. It covers every countable use: floods and earthquakes, a ruined evening, even the skateboard trick in which a 180-degree ollie lands with the board straddling the ramp's lip.
disasters is a form of disaster
disaster, noun: An unexpected large-scale catastrophe, natural or human-made, that causes heavy damage or destruction, loss of life, or sometimes lasting harm to the environment. Full entry
- Forms
- disasterdisasters plural
- Spelling
- disaster → disasters: add -s
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