regionals
SayREE-juh-nuhlz/ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəlz/
- 1Plural of regional.
After sweeping the local meets, the gymnasts advanced to regionals.
The airline replaced several regionals with larger aircraft on busier routes.
Note
Only the noun can take this form. As an adjective, regional (a regional office, regional anesthesia) never adds -s, so regionals always names things: the entities or events whose scope ends at one region's border. Read it as shorthand. A longer phrase has been clipped to its adjective, and context supplies the missing noun, such as a competition round or a type of aircraft.
regionals is a form of regional
regional, noun: A company, publication, event, or other thing whose reach is limited to a single region. Full entry
- Forms
- regionalregionals plural
- Spelling
- regional → regionals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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