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say it: di-VAHY-suhz
devices is a noun meaning "an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'". It carries one recorded sense.
an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'
“eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force”
“the children were left to their own devices”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for devices come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.