elephants
USEL-uh-fuhnts/ˈɛl.ə.fənts/UKEL-i-fuhnts/ˈɛl.ɪ.fənts/
- 1Plural of elephant.
A herd of elephants moved toward the waterhole at dusk.
Conservationists tracked the elephants across the reserve for months.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, and it serves most meanings of the singular: the animals themselves, anything huge and ponderous, sheets of elephant paper. The exception is the obsolete use for ivory, which was a mass noun with no plural. British children meet the form early in counting, where "one elephant, two elephants" stretches each number to about a second.
elephants is a form of elephant
elephant, noun: A very large gray mammal of Africa or Asia, with a long trunk, large ears and usually tusks, the largest living land animal. Full entry
- Forms
- elephantelephants plural
- Spelling
- elephant → elephants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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