enthusiasts
- 1Plural of enthusiast.
Film enthusiasts lined up overnight for tickets to the festival premiere.
The forum connects amateur astronomy enthusiasts from across the country.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, and most at home after a noun that names the passion: film enthusiasts, wine enthusiasts, astronomy enthusiasts. That first noun stays singular, so it is film enthusiasts, not films enthusiasts. The plural possessive takes a bare apostrophe (the enthusiasts' forum). In older English the word could also mean people of over-zealous religious fervor, an archaic sense the plural shares with its singular.
enthusiasts is a form of enthusiast
enthusiast, noun: A person full of eager interest in or excitement about something. Full entry
- Forms
- enthusiastenthusiasts plural
- Spelling
- enthusiast → enthusiasts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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