Plural
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English
Adjective
Plural (not comparable)
- More than one of something.
Antonyms
Noun
Plural (plural Plurals)- (grammar): a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
Notes
- Many languages have singular and plural forms for one item or more than one item. Some have a singular form for one, dual form for two, trial form for three, paucal form for several, and plural for more than two (e.g., Arabic, Fijian).
- While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
- In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.
Antonyms
Thesaurus
a certain number, a few, certain, composite, dual, more, more than one, nonuniqueness, not singular, number, numerous, numerousness, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality, pluralness, plurative, several, singular, some, trial, variety, various
Etymology
From Old French plurel, from Latin pluralis, adjective from plus, pluris ("more"), + adjective suffix -alis.
Pronunciation
Translations
Adjective
more than one
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Noun
word in plural form
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See also
- (grammatical numbers) grammatical number, number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural (Category: en:Grammar) [edit]
Catalan
Adjective
Noun
Plural m. (plural Plurals)
Etymology
Latin plurale
French
Adjective
Plural m. (f. plurale, m. plural pluraux, f. plural plurales)
Related terms
Galician
Noun
Plural m. (feminine plural, plural plurais)
Occitan
Noun
Plural m. (plural Plurals)
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
plùrāl m. (Cyrillic spelling плу̀ра̄л)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /plǔraːl/
- Hyphenation: plu‧ral
Declension
declension of Plural
singular | plural | |
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nominative | plùrāl | plurali |
genitive | plurála | plurala |
dative | pluralu | pluralima |
accusative | plural | plurale |
vocative | plurale | plurali |
locative | pluralu | pluralima |
instrumental | pluralom | pluralima |
Synonyms
Spanish
Adjective
Noun
- (grammar) plural
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