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  1. adjective Relating to or composed of more than one member, set, or kind: the plural meanings of a text; a plural society.
  2. adjective Grammar Of or being a grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.
  3. noun Grammar The plural number or form.

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  • Since most nouns take an -s ending for their plural, the s sound was dropped and thus pea became the singular.
  • I suppose such a plural is as allowable as Noi andav am per lo solingo Piano, etc What is all this erudite Enquiry about? —  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes
  • By adding the common plural, the terms for these and those would be produced: Maud , these; ahod , those. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • This, I think, is one of the qualities that distinguishes the contemporary memoir from what used to be called memoirs, plural, as in the antique phrase —  Largehearted Boy
  • Notice "disclosures" is in the plural, also notice that the supposed disclosures open a can of worms for both Palin and McCain. —  Zonitics
 

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  1. Middle English plurel, from Old French, from Latin plūrālis, from plūs, plūr-, more; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel, F pluriel = Spanish Portuguese plural = Italian plurale = German plural, from Latin pluralis, of or belonging to more than one, or to many; in gram, pluralis, sc. numerus, the plural number; from plus (plur-), more: see plus.
 

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