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 Definitions of plural  [ˈplʊər əl]  

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Definition of 'plural' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) plural
pertaining to or involving more than one.

2.  plural
pertaining to or involving a plurality of persons or things.

3.  plural
of or belonging to the grammatical category of number used to indicate that a word has more than one referent, as children or them, or in some languages more than two referents, as Old English ge“you.”

4. (n.) plural
the plural number.

5.  plural
a word or other form in the plural.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME < L plūrālis=plūr-, s. of plūsplus+-alis -al1)

Definition of 'plural' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) plural, plural form
the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

2. (adj) plural
composed of more than one member, set, or kind

3. (adj) plural
grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units


Definition of 'plural' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) plural
the plural
the form of a word that refers to more than one
What's the plural of "roof?"; an irregular plural form


Definition of 'plural' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) plural
relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word

2. (noun) plural
the plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form


Translation of 'plural' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (in) the form of a word which expresses more than one
`Mice' is the plural of `mouse'; a plural noun/verb; Is the verb in the singular or the plural?

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: meervoud Arabic flag Arabic: صيغَة الجَمْع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: множествен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: plural Czech flag Czech: množné číslo; množný German flag German: der Plural; Plural-...
Danish flag Danish: flertal; flertalsform Greek flag Greek: πληθυντικός (γραμμ.) Spanish flag Spanish: plural
Estonian flag Estonian: mitmus Farsi flag Farsi: جمع Finnish flag Finnish: monikko
French flag French: pluriel Hebrew flag Hebrew: רַבִּים Hindi flag Hindi: बहुवचन
Croatian flag Croatian: množina Hungarian flag Hungarian: többes (szám) Indonesian flag Indonesian: jamak
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fleirtala Italian flag Italian: plurale Japanese flag Japanese: 複数(の)
Korean flag Korean: 복수(의) Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: daugiskaita Latvian flag Latvian: daudzskaitlis
Malay flag Malay: jamak Dutch flag Dutch: meervoud Norwegian flag Norwegian: flertall(sform), pluralis
Polish flag Polish: liczba mnoga, w liczbie m Persian flag Persian: جمع Pashto flag Pashto: جمع
Portuguese flag Portuguese: plural Romanian flag Romanian: plural Russian flag Russian: множественное число
Slovak flag Slovak: množné číslo Slovenian flag Slovenian: množina Serbian flag Serbian: množina
Swedish flag Swedish: plural Thai flag Thai: รูปพหูพจน์ Turkish flag Turkish: çoğul
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 複數形(的) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: множина Urdu flag Urdu: جمع
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: số nhiều Chinese flag Chinese: 复数形式(的)

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