Word.ws English Dictionary

reconnaissances

reconnaissances is the plural of reconnaissance.

Meaning of reconnaissance

Noun

reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

  1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
    • The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Phrases with reconnaissances

Questions about reconnaissances

What is reconnaissances the plural of?
Reconnaissances is the plural of reconnaissance.

Words near reconnaissances in the dictionary

  1. reconjures
  2. reconjuring
  3. reconnaisance
  4. reconnaissance
  5. reconnaissance in force
  6. reconnaissances
  7. reconnaissances in force
  8. reconnaître
  9. reconnect
  10. reconnectable
  11. reconnected

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reconnaissances (page history and authors); reconnaissance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reconnaissances.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reconnaissances. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.