militias
- 1Plural of militia.
Rival militias controlled different districts of the capital after the government collapsed.
Colonial governors relied on volunteer militias to supplement the regular army.
Note
A regular plural with nothing irregular about it: just add -s. The interest lies in what it counts. Singular militia often names a whole body of people and can take either a singular or a plural verb. Militias, by contrast, means several separate forces, such as rival armed groups. It can also count the national police forces of countries like Belarus, a sense otherwise spelled militsia.
militias is a form of militia
militia, noun: A force of trained civilians serving as an official reserve army, the whole able-bodied population called up in an emergency, or a private armed group outside government control. Full entry
- Spelling
- militia → militias: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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