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demarcations

demarcations is the plural of demarcation.

Meaning of demarcation

Noun

demarcation (countable and uncountable, plural demarcations)

  1. The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
  2. A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
    • About sunset, he was leaning on the remains of an old wall, which had once probably surrounded a Roman encampment, and now served as a line of demarcation between two villages, as jealous of each other's claims as near neighbours usually are.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 48–49
  3. Any strictly defined separation.
    • There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.

Questions about demarcations

What is demarcations the plural of?
Demarcations is the plural of demarcation.

Words near demarcations in the dictionary

  1. demarcation lines
  2. demarcation potential
  3. demarcation potentials
  4. demarcational
  5. demarcationalism
  6. demarcations
  7. demarcative
  8. demarcator
  9. demarcators
  10. demarch
  11. demarche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demarcations (page history and authors); demarcation (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.

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