interpretations
- 1Plural of interpretation.
Critics offered competing interpretations of the novel's ambiguous ending.
The data supports several plausible interpretations, none of them conclusive.
Note
Only the countable meanings of interpretation take a plural: acts of explaining, versions, readings offered, an artist's renderings, the application of general principles to particular cases. The uncountable ones stay singular. These are the discipline of carrying one spoken or signed language into another, and the bare power of explaining. So a conference relies on interpretation, while critics and scientists offer interpretations.
interpretations is a form of interpretation
interpretation, noun: The meaning or explanation that an interpreter draws out of something; the sense given to it. Full entry
- Forms
- interpretationinterpretations plural
- Spelling
- interpretation → interpretations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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