singers
- 1Plural of singer.
The festival featured singers from a dozen different countries.
Backup singers harmonized softly behind the lead vocalist.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, and it covers more than vocalists. The same form names several dance figures sung by a caller, or the pieces of music built that way. Capitalized, it can mean sewing machines of the Singer brand. The spelling is also shared with the plural for things that singe, so a phrase like "the singers in the mill" needs context to show which is meant.
- 2USSIN-jurz/ˈsɪnd͡ʒɚz/UKSIN-juhz/ˈsɪnd͡ʒəz/Plural of singer.
The finishing room's singers scorched the stray fibers from each bolt of cotton.
Workers cleaned the singers each night to keep their flames even.
Note
Here the singers are devices as often as people. The agent noun from singe covers anyone who singes. In textile finishing it names the machines that scorch loose fibers from cloth. Singe drops its final e before -er, so this plural looks exactly like the plural for vocalists. The verb keeps that e in singeing, but the noun has no such marker to tell the two apart.
singers is a form of singer
singer, noun: A person who sings, often as a profession. Full entry
- Forms
- singersingers plural
- Spelling
- singer → singers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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