hurricanes
- 1Plural of hurricane.
Forecasters tracked three hurricanes spinning across the Atlantic at once.
Warmer ocean temperatures can fuel more intense hurricanes.
Note
A regular plural, formed by adding -s, and it serves every meaning of the singular: storms, rum cocktails ordered by the round, even the British fighter aircraft of World War II flying in formation. In the forecaster's strict usage, hurricanes are the tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and eastern North Pacific, with winds of 74 miles per hour or more. Similar storms elsewhere go by other names.
hurricanes is a form of hurricane
hurricane, noun: A severe tropical cyclone: an intense storm that rotates around a calm central eye, bringing destructive winds and heavy rain. Full entry
- Forms
- hurricanehurricanes plural
- Spelling
- hurricane → hurricanes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with hurricanes, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.