elevators
- 1Plural of elevator.
The hotel installed glass elevators that look out over the atrium.
During the power outage, all the elevators stopped between floors.
Note
A regular plural in -s, with no change to the -or ending, and it carries every meaning the singular has. For the cabs that move people between floors, elevators is the word of American, Canadian, Australian and Philippine English. The same plural serves for grain silos, for the control surfaces that pitch an aircraft, for a dentist's prying instruments, and for the muscles that raise the eye or leg.
elevators is a form of elevator
elevator, noun: A permanent installation with a powered cab or platform that moves people and goods between the floors of a building. Full entry
- Forms
- elevatorelevators plural
- Spelling
- elevator → elevators: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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