# possibles

Pronunciation: US say "PAH-suh-buhlz" /ˈpɑ.sə.bl̩z/; UK say "POS-i-buhlz" /ˈpɒs.ɪ.bl̩z/

## Noun

2. The essential personal equipment carried by an American frontiersman, such as tools, ammunition, and fire-making supplies.
   - Simple: The basic gear and supplies that an American frontiersman carried with him for daily survival.
   - _He stuffed his possibles into a leather bag before setting out across the plains._
   - _Every trapper kept his possibles close, never trusting them to the pack mule._

## Noun

1. Plural of possible. *(rare)* — plural of possible
   - Simple: Plural of possible. Use this when talking about more than one person or thing that might be chosen.
   - _The selectors narrowed the possibles down to a shortlist of three._
   - _She circled the possibles on her list of job candidates._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/possibles (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).