earthquakes
- 1Plural of earthquake.
A series of earthquakes rattled the region throughout the night.
Geologists have linked the recent earthquakes to movement along the fault.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries every noun meaning of its singular, including the figurative one: a run of political earthquakes is a series of upheavals, not tremors. It takes plural agreement (these earthquakes were). Earthquake can also be an intransitive verb meaning to undergo an earthquake, so the same spelling may occasionally be a verb form rather than a plural noun.
earthquakes is a form of earthquake
earthquake, noun: Shaking of the earth's surface that results from rock shifting along geologic faults or from volcanic activity. Full entry
- Forms
- earthquakeearthquakes plural
- Spelling
- earthquake → earthquakes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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