amends

See also: Amends and amends.

English

Etymology

From French amendes, plural of amende. Compare with amende.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛndz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

amends

1. plural of amend

Noun

amends

1. Compensation for an injury or loss; recompense; reparation.

   Synonyms: indemnity, (Northern England, Scotland; in some senses obsolete) mends, redress, restitution; see also Thesaurus:compensation

   Amends were made for the damage and no charges were filed.

   • 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

     As to you, Mr. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot.

Usage notes

• Many consider amends a plural-only noun, but historically and in some current usage the singular appears.
• Most commonly found in to make amends.

Translations

compensation for a loss or injury

Bulgarian: компенсация (bg) (kompensacija) Czech: odškodnění n, odškodné (cs) n, náhrada (cs) f (škody) Faroese: endurgjald n, skaðabót f Galician: reparación (gl) f German: Wiedergutmachung (de) f, Schadensersatz (de) m, Schadensausgleich m, Entschädigung (de) f Hungarian: kártalanítás (hu), kárpótlás (hu), kártérítés (hu), jóvátétel (hu) Icelandic: sárabætur f pl, miskabætur f pl Polish: rekompensata (pl) f, odszkodowanie (pl) n, zadośćuczynienie (pl) n Portuguese: compensação (pt) f, reparos m pl Russian: компенса́ция (ru) f (kompensácija) Spanish: compensación (es) f, reparación (es) f, desagravio (es) m

Verb

amends

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of amend

References

• “amends”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amends”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• menads, Masden, Edmans, Madsen, desman, Amsden, demans, Madens, Mandés