hearings
SayHEER-ingz/ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋz/UK/ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋz/
- 1Plural of hearing.
The committee scheduled several hearings to review the new policy.
Witnesses testified at the hearings over the course of three days.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable kinds of hearing. A judge holds hearings, which are legal procedures conducted without a jury, such as evidentiary hearings. The word can also mean reports or pieces of news, or separate acts of hearing something. The faculty itself and the earshot it covers do not pluralize: a person has good hearing, not good hearings, and a remark is made within hearing, never within hearings.
hearings is a form of hearing
hearing, noun: The sense by which sound is perceived. Full entry
- Forms
- hearinghearings plural
- Spelling
- hearing → hearings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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