Plural of allusion

regular plural

The plural of allusion is allusions.

Forms of allusion

Both allusions required some squinting to identify.2025 November 5, Alison Herman, “Lorne in Limbo”, in Variety, volume 370, number 2, →ISSN, page 39. From the entry make fetch happen
The poem's dense allusions to ascension emphasize the apotheotic atmosphere.2016, Branko van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship. From the entry apotheotic
The Sorting Hat’s song, with its Dumbledorean pleas for unity and its allusions to the coming war, certainly foreshadows events in the final two books.2009, James W. Thomas, Repotting Harry Potter: A Professor’s Book-by-Book Guide for the Serious Re-Reader, Zossima Press, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry Dumbledorean
With their internal rhymings and cryptic puns and allusions, Williams's lines of dialogue may tax the actor as well as the audience.1996, Charles Adolph Huttar, Peter J. Schakel, The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, page 228. From the entry rhyming
The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.1995, Robert Farris Thompson, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 103. From the entry veve

noun An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.

What is the plural of allusion?: The plural of allusion is allusions.
Is allusion countable?: Allusion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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