explanations
- 1Plural of explanation.
The report offered several competing explanations for the sudden drop in sales.
Investigators dismissed the witness's shifting explanations as unreliable.
Note
Only the countable uses of explanation can take this plural. As the act of explaining, explanation often works as a mass noun (it needs no explanation), and that use has no plural. Explanations means separate accounts, each with its own reasons: competing explanations, shifting explanations. The plural can also cover the mutual clearing-up of disputed points, a use that edges toward reconciliation.
explanations is a form of explanation
explanation, noun: A statement, fact, or idea that makes something clear or understandable. Full entry
- Forms
- explanationexplanations plural
- Spelling
- explanation → explanations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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