tragedies
- 1Plural of tragedy.
The playwright's later tragedies explored themes of fate and ruin.
A string of personal tragedies left the family reeling.
Note
One plural for two very different meanings: a playwright's tragedies are works for the stage, a family's are disasters that really happened, and context nearly always tells them apart. When the art form itself is meant, English usually keeps the uncountable singular (a student of Greek tragedy), so the plural counts individual plays or events. The spelling follows the rule that turns final -y after a consonant into -ies.
tragedies is a form of tragedy
tragedy, noun: A disastrous event, especially one that causes great loss of life or serious injury. Full entry
- Forms
- tragedytragedies plural
- Spelling
- tragedy → tragedies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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