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Plural of confrontation

regular plural

The plural of confrontation is confrontations.

Forms of confrontation

Singularconfrontation /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
Pluralconfrontations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Confrontations in a sentence

  • I’m one of those people who avoids confrontations like the plague.From the entry avoid like the plague
  • These confrontations – 'bumfights' – are filmed and shown on the Internet.2018, Dominique Bodin, Luc Robene, Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias. From the entry bumfight
  • Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae)…. From the entry allosexual
  • Paul Sunday morning, interrupting the church service and leading to tense confrontations, videos posted by activists and content creators show.2026 January 19, Andy Rose, Elise Hammond, “Trump officials investigate protesters who interrupted Minnesota church service, targeting ICE…. From the entry Saint Paul
  • The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 101. From the entry Mauser

Meaning of confrontation

  1. noun The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
  2. noun A conflict between armed forces.

Full definition of confrontation

Questions about the plural of confrontation

What is the plural of confrontation?
The plural of confrontation is confrontations.
Is confrontation countable?
Confrontation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: confrontation (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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