Plural
['plʊər(ə)l] or ['plʊrəl]
Definition
(noun.) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one.
(adj.) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units .
(adj.) composed of more than one member, set, or kind .
Typist: Tito--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
(n.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
Edited by Erna
Definition
adj. containing or expressing more than one.—n. (gram.) the form denoting more than one.—n. Pluralisā′tion.—v.t. Plu′ralise to make plural.—v.i. to hold two or more benefices simultaneously.—ns. Plu′ralism the state of being plural: the holding by one person of more than one office at once esp. applied to ecclesiastical livings; Plu′ralist one who holds more than one office at one time; Plural′ity the state of being plural: a number consisting of more than one: the majority: the holding of more than one benefice at one time: the living held by a pluralist.—adv. Plu′rally.
Editor: Manuel
Examples
- Other is indicative mood, present tense, third person plural, verb active to say. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Plural number. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You ought to speak of other States in the plural number; not one of them is a city, but many cities, as they say in the game. Plato. The Republic.
- The single legislature and the plural executive seem to have been his favourite tenets. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Edited by Hugh