gallons
SayGAL-uhnz/ˈɡælənz/
- 1Plural of gallon.
Firefighters poured thousands of gallons onto the blaze before it died down.
The recipe scales up to several gallons for the entire crew.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries an informal meaning the singular lacks: gallons of coffee, gallons of paint, simply a great deal of some liquid. As a real measure, it needs a system behind it. A US liquid gallon is about 3.785 liters and an imperial gallon, used in Britain and Canada, is exactly 4.54609. So "ten gallons" in a recipe or on a fuel pump depends on where it was written.
gallons is a form of gallon
gallon, noun: A unit for measuring volume that is equal to eight pints, or four quarts. Full entry
- Forms
- gallongallons plural
- Spelling
- gallon → gallons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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