explorations
- 1Plural of exploration.
Early explorations of the polar regions cost many lives.
Her explorations into folk music shaped the whole album.
Note
A plural that belongs to the countable side of the noun. In the singular, exploration can name the activity in general, as in a love of exploration. In the plural it counts separate ventures: individual expeditions, individual studies, or, in mining, individual searches for commercially viable ore. The medical use works the same way, with each physical examination of a patient counting as one exploration.
explorations is a form of exploration
exploration, noun: The process of traveling through or into a region, especially unknown or unmapped territory, for the purpose of discovery. Full entry
- Forms
- explorationexplorations plural
- Spelling
- exploration → explorations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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