power – English noun declension

English noun forms of power

Noun: power
Singularpower
Pluralpowers

Sample Sentences

  • He has lost the power to speak.
  • On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines. [1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641:]
  • If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will. [2018, Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, page 74:]
  • The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government. [2022 March 8, “Magistrate Yang Wen-ke Sends Female Staff in Hsinchu County Government Roses for Their Contributions”, in HsinChu County Government, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022:]
  • the power of the written word
  • An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II:]
  • Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.[…]The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:]
  • No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life. [1978 November 17, 1:30:50 from the start, in The Star Wars Holiday Special (Science Fiction), spoken by Carrie Fisher, →OCLC:]
  • Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. [1998, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now:]
  • He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power.
  • “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]” [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. [1949, George Orwell [pseudonym; George Orwell], Nineteen Eighty-Four:]
  • In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population. [2005 April, Columbia Law Review:]
  • It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits. [2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.
  • Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.
  • Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. [2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:]
  • The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against the duke, in so much that he sent ouer a power of men into Normandie, which finding no great resistance, did much hurt in the countrie, by fetching and carieng spoiles and preies. [1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:]
  • Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
  • And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,
  • Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,
  • That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,
  • Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:]
  • He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
  • She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.
  • This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.
  • The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.
  • After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
  • “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]” [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. [2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.
  • We need a microscope with higher power.
  • do a power of good
  • Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble. [1872, Mark Twain, chapter XLVII, in Roughing It:]
  • what a power of languages he knew [1918, Henry Kitchell Webster, “The White Arc”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XXXVIII, number Five:]
  • All the other children are making a power of noise [1944/5, Dylan Thomas, Twenty Years a-Growing (filmscript (unfinished)), published 1964:]
  • "There'd be a power of horses down there on the parade ground, wouldn't there ?" [2002, William Magan, Soldier of the Raj, page 161:]
  • each word costing her a power of pain [2020, Laura Carlin, Requiem for a Knave:]
  • the mechanical powers
  • The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pótis
3. Proto-Italic *potis
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
6. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-t
8. Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
9. Proto-Italic *som
10. Proto-Italic *possom
11. Latin posseder.
12. Vulgar Latin potēre
13. Old French pooir
14. Anglo-Norman poerbor.
15. Middle English power
16. English power
17. From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald. See: Middle English Nouns 'power', Latin Nouns 'possum', French Nouns 'pouvoir'.

Verbs referencing "power"

French Nouns pouvoir, German Nouns Power.