ordinaries
- 1Plural of ordinary.
Colonial travelers frequently dined at ordinaries, where a set meal was served for a fixed price.
The herald arranged three bold ordinaries across the surface of the shield.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y of ordinary becomes -ies, as in diary and diaries. Because ordinary is usually an adjective, and adjectives never take a plural, this form signals that the noun is meant. That noun might be ecclesiastical ordinaries such as bishops, judges who hear cases themselves rather than by delegation, or the set-price meals of old eating houses, a sense now historical.
ordinaries is a form of ordinary
ordinary, noun: A person or thing that is commonplace, having nothing remarkable about it. Full entry
- Forms
- ordinaryordinaries plural
- Spelling
- ordinary → ordinaries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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