wholes
SayHOHLZUS/hoʊlz/UK/həʊlz/
- 1Plural of whole.
Fractions can be combined until they add up to several complete wholes.
The collector valued undamaged wholes far more than broken fragments.
Note
Only the noun has a plural, and it is the regular one, formed with a plain -s. The adjective whole (entire, undivided, sound) never takes an ending: a whole loaf, whole loaves. The noun is usually a singular abstraction (the whole, an entirety), so the plural appears mainly when complete units are counted or set against their parts, as when fractions add up to wholes.
wholes is a form of whole
whole, noun: The entirety of something, or a complete thing made up of all its parts, considered as a single unit. Full entry
- Forms
- wholewholes plural
- Spelling
- whole → wholes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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