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rediscoveries

rediscoveries is the plural of rediscovery.

Meaning of rediscovery

Noun

rediscovery (countable and uncountable, plural rediscoveries)

  1. The act of rediscovering.
    • The most important result of Mr. Mercer's work was the rediscovery of the tunnel, which had been buried, although still accessible through the partly blocked southern portal of the second and larger tunnel, built contiguously to the old one, about 1840.1951 May, “Notes and News: The Penydarran Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
  2. A second or subsequent discovery of the same thing.

Questions about rediscoveries

What is rediscoveries the plural of?
Rediscoveries is the plural of rediscovery.

Words near rediscoveries in the dictionary

  1. rediscover fire
  2. rediscovered
  3. rediscovered fire
  4. rediscoverer
  5. rediscoverers
  6. rediscoveries
  7. rediscovering
  8. rediscovering fire
  9. rediscovers
  10. rediscovers fire
  11. rediscovery

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