factions
- 1Plural of faction.
Competing factions within the party blocked every compromise.
Armed factions controlled different districts of the divided city.
Note
A regular plural that belongs to only one meaning of faction: the countable one, a group holding its own view inside a larger body such as a party. The other meanings, strife or discord and the blend of fact and fiction in books or film, are uncountable and take no plural. So factions always means rival groups, never quarrels or works of fact-based fiction.
factions is a form of faction
faction, noun: A group of people, especially within a political organization, that shares a belief or opinion setting it apart from those outside the group. Full entry
- Forms
- factionfactions plural
- Spelling
- faction → factions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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