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reformatories

reformatories is the plural of reformatory.

Meaning of reformatory

Noun

reformatory (plural reformatories)

  1. A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.
    • It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45

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Questions about reformatories

What is reformatories the plural of?
Reformatories is the plural of reformatory.

Words near reformatories in the dictionary

  1. Reformationists
  2. reformations
  3. reformative
  4. reformatively
  5. reformator
  6. reformatories
  7. reformatory
  8. reformats
  9. Reformatsky enolate
  10. Reformatsky enolates
  11. Reformatsky reaction

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