quarantines
- 1Plural of quarantine.
Health officials imposed multiple quarantines across the affected regions.
The new quarantines kept infected animals separate from the rest of the herd.
Note
A regular plural, but only some uses of quarantine can take it. The noun is both countable and uncountable: a person is placed in quarantine, with no plural, while officials impose quarantines when they mean separate periods or instances. The plural also fits the historical forty-day periods, such as the Venetian isolation at the lazaret after 1448 or the truce a French king imposed on warring nobles.
quarantines is a form of quarantine
quarantine, noun: A period or state of keeping people, livestock, or plants isolated from others to prevent a contagious disease from spreading. Full entry
- Forms
- quarantinequarantines plural
- Spelling
- quarantine → quarantines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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