forums
SayFOR-uhmzUS/ˈfɔɹəmz/AUS/ˈfoːɹəmz/UKFAW-ruhmz/ˈfɔːɹəmz/
- 1Plural of forum.
Many gaming forums shut down once social media took over.
The candidates appeared at a series of town-hall forums before the election.
Note
A regular English plural on a Latin noun, and it serves every meaning of forum: message boards, panel discussions, gatherings held for debate. The Latin plural fora still turns up in scholarly and archaeological writing, most naturally for the public squares of Roman towns. For online boards and town-hall events, forums is the natural choice, and fora there would sound stiff.
forums is a form of forum
forum, noun: An online message board where users post messages on one or more topics and reply to one another. Full entry
- Spelling
- forum → forums: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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