discoveries
- 1Plural of discovery.
Several major discoveries reshaped how we understand the human brain.
Her early discoveries laid the groundwork for decades of research.
Note
A plural that belongs to only some of the singular's meanings. Things found, such as fossils, comets and cures, count freely, as do revelations in the older sense and discovered attacks in chess. The legal sense does not. A lawyer speaks of discovery, the pre-trial gathering of evidence, and of the materials it turns up, without the -ies. So "the discoveries in the case" reads as findings, not as that legal phase.
discoveries is a form of discovery
discovery, noun: A thing that has been found, learned, or uncovered, especially for the first time. Full entry
- Forms
- discoverydiscoveries plural
- Spelling
- discovery → discoveries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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