militaries
USMIL-i-tair-eez/ˈmɪl.ɪˌtɛɹ.iz/UKMIL-i-treez/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪz/
- 1Plural of military.
The militaries of several NATO members coordinate joint exercises each year.
Several Asian militaries have modernized their equipment over the past decade.
Note
A plural that only the noun can make: the adjective military, as in military discipline, never takes an -s. The singular noun usually works collectively. The military means a nation's armed forces taken as one body, so the plural appears when the forces of several states are compared or set side by side, as in the militaries of allied nations.
militaries is a form of military
military, noun: The armed forces of a nation, considered as a whole. Full entry
- Forms
- military also pluralmilitaries plural
- Spelling
- military → militaries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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