ideas
Sayeye-DEE-uhz/aɪˈdi.əz/UK/aɪˈdɪəz/
- 1Plural of idea.
The team brainstormed dozens of ideas for the new campaign.
Her ideas about urban planning challenged decades of accepted practice.
Note
A plain plural, made with -s and no change to the stem, yet it carries every sense the singular does. In philosophy it names the abstract archetypes that real things only approximate. In everyday use it means thoughts, mental images, or plans for something to be done, the brainstorming kind. Two older meanings, an ideal and a thing's essential form, are obsolete in the plural as in the singular.
ideas is a form of idea
idea, noun: Any result of mental activity, such as a thought, a notion, or a way of thinking. Full entry
- Forms
- ideaideas plural
- Spelling
- idea → ideas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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