olives
SayOL-ivzUS/ˈɑ.lɪvz/UK/ˈɒ.lɪvz/
- 1Plural of olive.
The farmers harvested the olives by hand before pressing them for oil.
A bowl of marinated olives sat in the center of the table.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s with no change to the stem. It counts whatever can be counted under olive: the fruit in a bowl, the trees in a grove, even the compression rings a plumber fits between nut and pipe. The wood and the dark yellowish-green color are usually treated as a single substance or shade, so the plural rarely refers to them.
olives is a form of olive
olive, noun: The small, oval fruit of the olive tree, eaten either unripe, when it is usually green, or ripe, when it is usually black. Full entry
- Forms
- oliveolives plural
- Spelling
- olive → olives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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