geese
GEES/ˈɡiːs/
- 1Plural of goose.
A flock of geese settled on the frozen lake at dusk.
Farmers once kept geese to raise the alarm when strangers approached.
Note
An irregular plural made by changing the vowel instead of adding -s. The same old pattern, called i-umlaut, gives foot/feet and tooth/teeth, so a learner who knows feet already knows the shape of geese. It is the plural for the birds in a flock, for the female bird, for the meat, and for the slang sense of a silly person.
geese is a form of goose
goose, noun: Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, with feathers and webbed feet, able to fly, swim, and walk, and generally larger than ducks. Full entry
- Forms
- goosegeese plural
- Spelling
- goose → geese: irregular plural (no -s)
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