pluralization
- noun
- /ˌplʊrəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- The teacher explained that pluralization in English often involves adding 's' or 'es' to a noun, such as turning 'cat' into 'cats'.
Examples
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And now we find out that if the if the last sound is voiced, then the pluralization gets the Z sound of voiced.
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Is it Richard's hell-bent avoidance of proper pluralization?
Academic text (2004) -
In Latin America, by contrast, the spirit of any particular religion is more constrained under conditions of rapid globalization and intense pluralization.
Academic text (1999) -
In other words, the degree to which an organization can be regulated is limited by the variety of the organization's regulatory systems. That implies that distributed power or pluralization may achieve better management (see Ashby 1981).
Academic text (1991) -
The renewal of postcommunist societies in Central and Eastern Europe, the formation of an ever-closer European Union, and the increasing ethnic pluralization of modern society have fueled debate over how to reconceptualize the relationship between the individual and the state.
Academic text (2001) -
In terms of our second basic truth, the commitment to multilateralism, the end of the Cold War, the early pluralization and subsequent concentration of economic power and influence, and the tendency to pursue specific regional arrangements in place of more comprehensive global or multilateral ones, there has been a substantial redirection of Canada's foreign policy.
Academic text (2004) -
Behind that simple foreign word, to those who speak and think in English, stood a long-overdue effort by the Catholic Church to deal seriously and discriminatingly with a culture created in the West by the Enlightenment, economic and political revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the development of natural and human sciences, and the secularization and pluralization of society.
Academic text (2013) -
The researcher focused on the pluralization of terms in her study to clarify the differences between the various species examined.
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For students learning English, understanding the rules of pluralization is essential for mastering the language.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pluralization comes from plural, which goes back to the old Latin word plus meaning 'more'. The ending -ization means 'process', so pluralization is the process of turning a word into 'more than one', which is why the word means changing a word to its plural form.