orals
SayAW-ruhlzUS/ˈɔ.ɹəlz/UK/ˈɔː.ɹəlz/AUSOH-ruhlz/ˈoː.ɹəlz/
- 1Plural of oral.
The graduate students dreaded their orals more than any written paper.
Three faculty members sat on the panel for the doctoral orals.
Note
Only the noun oral forms a plural, and only in its countable uses: spoken examinations, as in a language class; examinations of the mouth, where the plural is the usual form; and oral steroids. The adjective never takes -s (oral medication, never orals medication). Oral meaning oral sex is uncountable, so orals is not its plural.
orals is a form of oral
oral, noun: A spoken test or examination, especially in a language course. Full entry
- Forms
- oralorals plural
- Spelling
- oral → orals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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