sterlings
SaySTUR-lingzUS/ˈstɝ.lɪŋz/UK/ˈstɜː.lɪŋz/
- 1Plural of sterling.
The buried hoard held dozens of silver sterlings, each one worn thin from use.
Engineers rebuilt the timber sterlings that protect the old bridge's piers.
Note
Counting is what brings out the plural, so it gathers around separate objects: the silver pennies of an old hoard, pieces of sterling silver, or the pilings that guard a bridge’s piers, which also go by the name starlings. Talk of British money as a whole keeps the singular, as in prices quoted in sterling.
sterlings is a form of sterling
sterling, noun: The currency of the United Kingdom, whose basic unit is the pound sterling. Full entry
- Forms
- sterlingsterlings plural
- Spelling
- sterling → sterlings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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