merchants
- 1Plural of merchant.
Wealthy merchants financed the voyage in exchange for a share of the cargo.
The guild protected the interests of local merchants against foreign competition.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular: traders and shopkeepers, but also trading vessels, the ships otherwise called merchantmen. In informal, sometimes disparaging use, it can label people known for a particular habit or activity. The same spelling also serves a rare verb meaning to buy goods from one outsider and sell them to another, so only the sentence shows whether merchants is a noun or a verb.
merchants is a form of merchant
merchant, noun: A person who buys and sells commodities in order to make a profit. Full entry
- Forms
- merchantmerchants plural
- Spelling
- merchant → merchants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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