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counterspectacles

counterspectacles is the plural of counterspectacle.

Meaning of counterspectacle

Noun

counterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)

  1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
    • Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Questions about counterspectacles

What is counterspectacles the plural of?
Counterspectacles is the plural of counterspectacle.

Words near counterspectacles in the dictionary

  1. countersorceries
  2. countersorcery
  3. counterspace
  4. counterspecies
  5. counterspectacle
  6. counterspectacles
  7. counterspeech
  8. counterspeeches
  9. counterspell
  10. counterspelled
  11. counterspelling

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