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Plural of assassination

regular plural

The plural of assassination is assassinations.

Forms of assassination

Singularassassination /əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Pluralassassinations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Assassinations in a sentence

  • The great number of transfeminicides (assassinations of transgender people) and assassinations of homosexual people are truly alarming.2019, Ángel F. Méndez Montoya, “¡Sin maricones no hay revoluciones! (Without Queering, There's No Revolutioneering!): Mexico's Queer…. From the entry transfeminicide
  • Twelve years have now elapsed since the first assassinations which proved the existence of a criminal organization in our midst.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lodge 341, Vermissa”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry opprobrium
  • Lesser evilism has now become the default position to justify everything from drone strikes, domestic spying, targeted assassinations, torture and proxy wars to full-scale military intervention.2014, Colin Mooers, Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire, page 102. From the entry lesser evilism

Meaning of assassination

  1. noun The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

Full definition of assassination

Questions about the plural of assassination

What is the plural of assassination?
The plural of assassination is assassinations.
Is assassination countable?
Assassination is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assassination (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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