petitions
- 1Plural of petition.
The committee reviewed dozens of petitions before the deadline.
Several petitions circulated through the village demanding lower taxes.
Note
A regular plural that shares its spelling with the present-tense verb: she petitions the council. A determiner or number marks the noun (dozens of petitions, the petitions), while a following object marks the verb. The plural covers every kind of request the singular does: signed appeals to an authority, formal applications to a court, and humble prayers addressed to a deity or sovereign.
petitions is a form of petition
petition, noun: A formal written request from a person or group to a ruler or government, often bearing many signatures and asking for a right, mercy, or the fixing of a wrong. Full entry
- Forms
- petitionpetitions plural
- Spelling
- petition → petitions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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