mobiles
- 1Plural of mobile.
Several mobiles drifted overhead, their metal shapes turning in the draft.
The craft store sells handmade mobiles built from driftwood and sea glass.
Note
One plural serves several countable nouns: hanging sculptures that turn in a draft, phones in British and Irish shorthand for mobile phones, people who move or travel, and non-player characters, where mobile stands in for mob. It does not cover the internet reached through mobile devices, which is uncountable and takes no plural. The adjective never takes it either, because English adjectives do not add -s.
mobiles is a form of mobile
mobile, noun: A hanging sculpture or decoration made of pieces arranged so that each can move independently in moving air. Full entry
- Forms
- mobilemobiles plural
- Spelling
- mobile → mobiles: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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