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adjective
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consisting of, containing, or pertaining to more than one.
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pertaining to or involving a plurality of persons or things.
3.
being one of such a plurality.
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Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number, found in many languages, indicating that a word has more than one referent, as in English men, or more than two referents, as in Old English ge, meaning “you.”
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the plural number.
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a form in the plural.
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- It began life as a plural object pronoun and evolved into the whole enchilada: subject and object, singular and plural.
- Not to mention they, but filling a singular gap with a plural doesn't satisfy every ortholinguist.
- My current bugbear is use of the bare apostrophe to show possession, after something other than a plural.
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plural
late 14c., from O.Fr. plurel "more than one" (12c.), from L. pluralis "of or belonging to more than one," from plus (gen. pluris) "more" (see plus).
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plural definition
The grammatical category in nouns, pronouns, and verbs that refers to more than one thing. Most nouns become plural with the addition of -s or -es: hats, chairs, dishes, countries, and so on. Some nouns form the plural in other ways, as in children, feet, geese, and women. (Compare singular; see agreement.)
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