headquarters – English noun declension

English noun forms of headquarters

Noun: headquarters
Singularheadquarters
Pluralheadquarters

Sample Sentences

  • As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:]
  • The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano. [2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business:]
  • The head-quarters of the rebellion in the East were at a little town called Hui-lung. [[1888 [1887 March 1], “The Great Mahomedan Rebellion in Yunnan”, in The China Review, volume XVI, →OCLC, page 85:]

Nouns inflected like headquarters

cement works, Old World ROM, mythopoetics, zhenniao, ichimon, seinen, sedoka, semese, sentai, senryū, senbei, whapuku, whapuka, selbri, Cinghalese, sayori, sansho, sanies, sanmai, sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
5. Proto-Indo-European *káput
6. Proto-Germanic *haubudą
7. Old English hēafod
8. Middle English heed
9. English head
10. English quarters
11. English headquarters
12. From head + quarters.

Verbs referencing "headquarters"

Irish Nouns ceanncheathrú.