policemen
puh-LEES-muhn/pəˈliːsmən/
- 1Plural of policeman.
Several policemen cordoned off the street after the accident.
The policemen questioned witnesses late into the evening.
Note
A plural made the irregular way, by turning -man into -men, as in firemen and postmen. It serves every meaning of policeman, not only officers: chemists call the rubber-capped glass rods used in gravimetric analysis policemen, and skipper butterflies of the genus Coeliades are policemen too. Because the singular usually implies a man, police officers is the safer plural for a mixed group.
policemen is a form of policeman
policeman, noun: A member of a police force, especially a male officer. Full entry
- Forms
- policemanpolicemen plural
- Spelling
- policeman → policemen: irregular plural (no -s)
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