plural
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- noun
- /ˈplʊrəl/
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plural
- From now on, "fishes" is the plural for fishes.
- syllabic plural
- segmental plural
- disyllabic plurals
Larva is singular, Larvae is plural.
- Larva is singular, Larvae is plural.
- And they said, OK, maybe these things that we see are Novi, or, you know, the plural of Nova happening in Andromeda.
- The word for a black person, abid, plural Abid is slave.
- Mice are multiple Mouse plural of mouse is mice.
- I said the plural of Batman would be Batman.
- So you know, the plural of errors.
- That's it's BIOS, bio, like plural of bio.
- Julia, I love that you did the plural of Julius.
- I don't know what the plural of Fiasco's is.
Examples
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The man who thinks the plural of child is Childs.
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In English, lice is the plural of what word?
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The plural is even worse.
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I said the plural of Batman would be Batman.
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The plural of mouse is mice.
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Hey, what's the plural of moose?
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And I said the plural of mouse is mice, not mouses.
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But as the social scientist's quip goes, the plural of anecdote is not data.
Academic text (2002) -
Knodel, the German word for dumpling, has no plural, just like sheep in English.
Fiction book (1990) -
The plural of child is children.
Synonyms
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A change in a word that shows more than one person or thing
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Etymology
Plural as a noun comes from the same Latin pluralis and the root plus ('more'), the same idea as the English word plus. So the plural of a noun is the form that shows 'more than one', for example 'dogs' instead of 'dog'.