northerns
USNOR-thurnz/ˈnɔɹðɚnz/UKNAW-thuhnz/ˈnɔːðənz/
- 1Plural of northern.
The anglers landed several northerns before the storm rolled in.
Local guides say the northerns here strike best at dawn.
Note
A regular plural that only the noun can take: northern as an adjective, as in a northern town, never adds -s. The noun covers a surprising range: people from the north, the northern pike, frontier films and fiction set in Canada or Alaska, and 4-8-4 steam locomotives. Context alone decides whether 'three northerns' means fish caught, films watched or engines restored.
northerns is a form of northern
northern, noun: A large, predatory freshwater fish of the pike family, commonly called the northern pike. Full entry
- Forms
- northernnortherns plural
- Spelling
- northern → northerns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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