originals
- 1Plural of original.
The museum displays reproductions while the originals remain in climate-controlled storage.
Collectors pay enormous sums for the originals rather than for later editions.
Note
A regular plural that serves every noun use of original at once: works set against their copies, people of striking talent or personality (and, in an older usage, plain eccentrics), a fashion designer's new garments from a collection, even the ridgeling. Context decides which is meant. The adjective original takes no plural, so an -s ending always marks the noun: the originals, never originals documents.
originals is a form of original
original, noun: An authentic object or creative work made by its creator rather than copied, often serving as the model for later versions. Full entry
- Forms
- originaloriginals plural
- Spelling
- original → originals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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