empires
- 1Plural of empire.
Ancient empires often expanded through both conquest and trade.
Several European empires competed for colonies across the globe.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s and no change to the stem. It covers every countable sense of empire: states enlarged by conquest, realms ruled by an emperor or empress, and the commercial kind, as when rival families build competing media empires. The capitalized Empire is an adjective, so it never takes this ending. Only the noun has a plural.
empires is a form of empire
empire, noun: A large group of countries or territories under a single supreme ruler or government, especially one ruled by an emperor or empress or built up by conquest. Full entry
- Forms
- empireempires plural
- Spelling
- empire → empires: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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