Definition of Plural number. Meaning of Plural number. Synonyms of Plural number

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Definition of Plural number

Plural number
Plural Plu"ral, a. [L. pluralis, from plus, pluris, more; cf. F. pluriel, OF. plurel. See Plus.] Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. --Shak. Plural number (Gram.), the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.

Meaning of Plural number from wikipedia

- present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements. The word "number" is also...
- many languages, a plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically...
- Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form...
- Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...
- plural forms, and sometimes dual form as well (grammatical number). Some other languages use different classifying systems, especially in the plural pronouns...
- meaning of plural is "more than one", the grammatical term has a slightly different technical meaning. In the English system of grammatical number, singular...
- cannot be both singular and plural, since these are both values of the "number" category. It can, however, be both plural and feminine, since these represent...
- A plurale tantum (Latin for 'plural only'; pl. pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for...
- two grammatical numbers: the singular number (ಏಕವಚನ) and the plural number (ಬಹುವಚನ). In declension, the plural form of a masculine or feminine noun is...
- in singular number but not in plural. In terms of linguistic markedness, these languages neutralize the gender opposition in the plural, itself a marked...