Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plural of phenomenon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of phenomenon.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of phenomenon.
Examples
“The man who honestly and unreservedly accepts the testimony of consciousness in all its integrity must answer at once, _we have an immediate consciousness, not merely of the phenomena of mind, but of a personal self as passively or actively related to the phenomena_.”
“_noumena_, that is, the reason perceives being in and through phenomena, substance in and through qualities; an anticipation of the fundamental principle of modern psychology -- "_that every power or substance in existence is knowable to us, so far only, as we know its phenomena_.”
“Looks like the Palin phenomena is sinking slowly into the sunset.”
“I have to say that I'm still leary that this phenomena is actually happening, especially when one quotes Laura Sessions Stepp as an expert.”
“The elementary substances which form living material are known, but it has hitherto not been found possible artificially so to combine these substances that the resulting mass will exhibit those activities which we call the phenomena of life.”
“I don't think it matters what we call the phenomena or process that happens within us.”
“Mr. Snyder dismisses the polls as "short-term phenomena.”
The Wall Street Journal: Michigan Governor's GOP Brand Is Distinct
“The cost of cotton increase is a short-term phenomena, which it looks like will dissipate next year, the company said.”
The Wall Street Journal: American Eagle Net Soars; Higher Costs Hurt Margins
“And because I cannot experience love and be made mad by it, my fitness to describe its phenomena is likewise denied.”
“However, I want to add that, even though the typical word used for this phenomena is “third-gendering”, a far better term is “ungendering”.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phenomena’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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E pluribus
Interesting Plurals
cherubim, seraphim, culs-de-sac, adjutants-general, aides-de-camp, passersby, courts-martial, commanders-in-chief, fleurs-de-lis, knickerbockers glory, heirs apparent, billets doux and 97 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Venganza's Words: Love Me, Love My Vo...
odalisque, defenestrate, ubiquitous, quaint, shameless, satchel, flourish, cumbersome, symbology, breadth, dissemination, phenomena and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for phenomena.
ruzuzu Do do do you? Nov 5, 2010
pterodactyl Me too me too! Nov 5, 2010
ruzuzu Do do do you? Nov 2, 2010
reesetee I do I do! Nov 2, 2010
ruzuzu Do doo do do you? Nov 1, 2010
reesetee That's scary, because I have the same problem. :-) Nov 1, 2010
ruzuzu I can't say it without getting the Muppets' rendition of "Mahna Mahna" stuck in my head. Nov 1, 2010
artoparts See the word noumena an aspect of Kant's philosophical writing. Sep 17, 2008
sarra Quite so. Go forth and educate, then :) Jan 22, 2008
sionnach What other word might we extend this observation to?
You've guessed it!
There can be many criteria, but only one criterion. Jan 22, 2008
sarra The plural form of the word phenomenon. “A phenomena” does not exist, while “some phenomena” and “a phenomenon” do. Jan 22, 2008