discourses
- 1Plural of discourse.
Foucault's discourses on power reshaped how scholars study institutions.
The collection gathers several discourses delivered to the academy over a decade.
Note
Only the countable meanings of discourse have a plural. The uncountable uses, such as expression in words generally or the archaic sense of verbal exchange, never take one. Discourses therefore always names separate things: individual conversations, formal expositions like lectures or treatises, or, after Michel Foucault, distinct institutionalized ways of thinking that limit what can be said about a topic. For expression in general, keep the singular.
discourses is a form of discourse
discourse, noun: The expression of thought in words, whether spoken or written. Full entry
- Forms
- discoursediscourses plural
- Spelling
- discourse → discourses: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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