Salvos

发音

AU /ˈsælvəʉz/

词形变化

only 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The Salvation Army.

    澳大利亚 仅复数

    Thank God for the Salvos. — marketing tagline

    2006, Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Quarterly Essay, Issue 22, page 25, At the Salvos, the writer claimed, she found emotional support and got her electricity bill paid. But the Salvos are often dealing with the desperate – “losers” – and their emergency needs for food and shelter, while the focus of the megachurches is unapologetically middle class […] .

词源

From Salv(ation Army) + -o (“diminutive suffix”), analysed as a plural.

来源:wiktionary