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Plural of censor

regular plural

The plural of censor is censors.

Forms of censor

Singularcensor /ˈsɛnsə/
Pluralcensors
Countablecountable

Censors in a sentence

  • The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
  • The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.
  • Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.From the entry excise
  • Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh - created by British author A.A.2023 April 10, Sarah Wu, Yew Lun Tian, Fabian Hamacher, Yimou Lee, “A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes…. From the entry representation
  • Censors often delete articles on WeChat groups run by neo-Maoists, who denounce the “bureaucrat-capitalists” running China.2021 July 2, “A future, with Chinese characteristics”, in The Economist, volume 439, number 9251, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12. From the entry neo-Maoist

Meaning of censor

  1. noun One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.
  2. noun A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
  3. noun An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

Full definition of censor

Questions about the plural of censor

What is the plural of censor?
The plural of censor is censors.
Is censor countable?
Censor is a countable noun.

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