mattresses
- 1Plural of mattress.
The hotel replaced all its old mattresses last spring.
Memory foam mattresses tend to retain heat more than spring ones.
Note
A regular plural with one extra syllable: because mattress ends in a hissing -ss, English adds -es, pronounced as its own beat. The same spelling serves the rare verb, as when snow mattresses the fields, blanketing them thickly. The plural is not only for beds: engineers also use it for retaining walls that support foundations or embankments, and for lagging wrapped around boilers.
mattresses is a form of mattress
mattress, noun: A padded support for sleeping, typically built around an inner layer of coiled springs wrapped in foam or other cushioning and enclosed in fabric. Full entry
- Forms
- mattressmattresses plural
- Spelling
- mattress → mattresses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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