droughts
- 1Plural of drought.
Repeated droughts forced many farmers to abandon their land.
Climate records show that severe droughts have become more frequent in the area.
Note
A count of separate episodes, each dry period treated as an event with a beginning and an end. The singular also works as a mass noun (a region in drought, crops lost to drought), and that use has no plural. Reach for the plural when the episodes can be told apart: repeated droughts, two droughts in a decade. The informal sporting sense counts the same way, as in a team's long scoring droughts.
droughts is a form of drought
drought, noun: A long stretch of time with much less rain than usual, lasting longer and doing more harm than a simple dry spell. Full entry
- Forms
- droughtdroughts plural
- Spelling
- drought → droughts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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