hostiles
USHOS-tuhlz/ˈhɑstəlz/UKHOS-tylz/ˈhɒstaɪlz/
- 1Plural of hostile.
The patrol radioed that several hostiles had taken cover behind the abandoned warehouse.
Lookouts counted at least a dozen hostiles moving along the valley floor.
Note
An adjective put to work as a noun: hostile, "not friendly, showing ill will," comes to stand on its own for an enemy. The noun lives mostly in the plural, so a lone hostile is rarer than a group of them. It names the people as an opposing party rather than describing their mood. Keep it apart from the adjective in hostile forces, where hostile still modifies a noun.
hostiles is a form of hostile
hostile, noun: An enemy. Full entry
- Forms
- hostilehostiles plural
- Spelling
- hostile → hostiles: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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