situations
- 1Plural of situation.
Good managers stay calm in stressful situations.
The novel places its characters in increasingly absurd situations.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, that carries every meaning of the singular, not only the tricky circumstances most speakers have in mind. Plants can be given different situations, meaning places to grow, in the sense Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist use in The American Flower Garden Directory (1833): a hibiscus "deserves a situation in every garden." Each situation is a separate state of affairs, so the noun counts naturally: two situations, several situations.
situations is a form of situation
situation, noun: The circumstances that exist at a particular time, either in general or for a particular person. Full entry
- Forms
- situationsituations plural
- Spelling
- situation → situations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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