guerrillas
- 1Plural of guerrilla.
The guerrillas waged a long campaign against the occupying army.
Mountain villages quietly supplied the guerrillas with food and shelter.
Note
The -s plural belongs to the noun alone. When guerrilla works as a modifier, as in guerrilla warfare, guerrilla tactics or guerrilla marketing, it stays singular: rebels use guerrilla tactics, never guerrillas tactics. The plural usually names the fighters themselves, though it stretches to marketers and to makers of guerrilla television. The older use of guerrilla for the war itself, rather than its fighters, is archaic.
guerrillas is a form of guerrilla
guerrilla, noun: A soldier in a small, independent group that fights a government or regular army through surprise raids. Full entry
- Forms
- guerrillaguerrillas plural
- Spelling
- guerrilla → guerrillas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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