refuges
SayREF-yooj-iz/ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒɪz/
- 1Plural of refuge.
Wartime planners built several refuges across the city for civilians.
Climbers rely on stone refuges scattered along the mountain trail.
Note
Only the countable senses of refuge take this ending: shelters, recourses, the refuge islands that split a busy road. The state of safety itself stays singular, so people take refuge, never refuges. The same spelling serves the intransitive verb meaning to return to shelter, as in a herd that refuges in the woods at dusk. In every use the final e keeps the g soft, a /dʒ/ sound, never a hard /g/.
refuges is a form of refuge
refuge, noun: A place that provides safety, protection, or shelter from danger or trouble. Full entry
- Forms
- refugerefuges plural
- Spelling
- refuge → refuges: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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