nephews
USNEF-yooz/ˈnɛf.juz/UKNEV-yooz/ˈnɛv.juz/
- 1Plural of nephew.
Her nephews spent the summer helping out on the family farm.
He left equal shares of the estate to his two nephews.
Note
The plural is regular: a plain -s with no change to the stem. What it covers is wider than it looks. Someone's nephews can be fraternal (a brother's sons) or sororal (a sister's sons), and the word can stretch to the sons of an in-law or a cousin. In older English it could also mean grandsons, so "his nephews" in an archaic text may mean his children's sons.
nephews is a form of nephew
nephew, noun: The son of one's brother or sister, or of a sibling's husband or wife. Full entry
- Forms
- nephewnephews plural
- Spelling
- nephew → nephews: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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