opinions

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of opinion.

   The committee collected opinions from every department before drafting its report.

   Readers sent in strongly divided opinions on the editorial.

   Note

   The plural only works where opinion is countable, meaning separate views that can be gathered, compared or divided. Mass uses of the word stay singular. It is also the ordinary plural for formal rulings, such as the opinions of judges, umpires or doctors. In European Union law it names the opinions an Advocate General delivers to the Court of Justice.

2. 2
   verbarchaic

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of opinion. Archaic.

   Note

   A rare verb form that looks exactly like the noun plural, so a reader meets it expecting a noun. The verb itself is archaic and transitive: someone opinions a view, or opinions that something is so. Outside deliberately old-fashioned writing it will read as a slip for the plural. It suits pastiche and period voices rather than ordinary prose.

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