Plural of hostility
regular plural
The plural of hostility is hostilities.
Forms of hostility
| Singular | hostility /hɒsˈtɪlɪti/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | hostilities /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Hostilities in a sentence
- As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin
- The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.From the entry call for
- Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress.1999, Ultramontane Associates, Culture Wars, volume 19, page 49. From the entry maleducation
- We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 3. From the entry jerry
- The Unification War, as it was later named, began with hostilities between the colonies furthest from the turian homeworld, Palaven.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: The Unification War Codex entry. From the entry civil war
Meaning of hostility
- noun The state of being hostile.
- noun A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Questions about the plural of hostility
- What is the plural of hostility?
- The plural of hostility is hostilities.
- Is hostility countable?
- Hostility is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hostility (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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