libraries
- 1Plural of library.
Several university libraries opened their archives to the public this month.
Funding cuts forced two neighborhood libraries to reduce their hours.
Note
A regular spelling change shapes this form: the final -y of library follows a consonant, so it becomes -ies, as it does in stories and bodies. The plural carries every use of the singular, including public institutions, private rooms lined with books, record and media collections, and the bundles of reusable code that programmers build into their software, as when a program draws on several libraries.
libraries is a form of library
library, noun: A public or institutional place that holds books and other media for reading, borrowing, or reference, and offers related services to its users. Full entry
- Forms
- librarylibraries plural
- Spelling
- library → libraries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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