Word.ws English Dictionary

abdications

abdications is the plural of abdication.

Meaning of abdication

Noun

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

  1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
  2. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
  3. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
    • abdication of the throne, government, power, authority
  4. (obsolete) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
  5. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power.

Questions about abdications

What is abdications the plural of?
Abdications is the plural of abdication.

Words near abdications in the dictionary

  1. abdicatest
  2. abdicateth
  3. abdicating
  4. abdication
  5. abdicational
  6. abdications
  7. abdicative
  8. abdicatives
  9. abdicator
  10. abdicators
  11. Abdiel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abdications (page history and authors); abdication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “abdications.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abdications. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.