Word.ws English Dictionary

paternity leaves

paternity leaves is the plural of paternity leave.

Meaning of paternity leave

Noun

paternity leave (usually uncountable, plural paternity leaves)

  1. (usually) A leave of absence from a job for a father to care of a baby.
    • My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.

Questions about paternity leaves

What is paternity leaves the plural of?
Paternity leaves is the plural of paternity leave.

Words near paternity leaves in the dictionary

  1. paternalness
  2. paternals
  3. paternities
  4. paternity
  5. paternity leave
  6. paternity leaves
  7. paternity suit
  8. paternity suits
  9. paternity test
  10. paternity tests
  11. Paterno

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paternity leaves (page history and authors); paternity leave (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: “paternity leaves.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paternity_leaves. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.