damages

1. 1.

   a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

   Synonymsamendsindemnityindemnificationrestitutionredress

   Broadercompensation

   Narrowerreliefactual damagesnominal damagespunitive damagesatonement

Other forms of damages

plural

damageses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about damages

What does damages mean?

damages means "a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury".

How many syllables are in damages?

damages has 3 syllables: dam-a-ges. The stress falls on "dam". In IPA it is /ˈdæmədʒəz/.

What is another word for damages?

Close synonyms include amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is damages a common word?

damages is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.