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singular

singular

1 3.5
A word form for one person or thing
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪŋɡjələr/
  • Specialized
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  • The first person singular of the present indicative of 'ver' exhibits in both Modern and Old Spanish a great morphological similarity with the first person singulars of two other very common verbs, namely, 'creer' and 'leer.'
  • singular and plural
  • first person singular
  • person singular

Which, yes, a sea butterfly has feet or foot singular.

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Examples

  • So if we wanted to say the squirrels, if for some reason there was more than one squirrel, we would just say that it's not singular, it's plural.

  • INSULA in the singular, AE in the plural.

  • My favorite thing in like maybe the world is getting together with smart or interesting people and being involved in one singular conversation.

  • So I'd say a great beginning, a great ending, and at least one singular memorable character.

  • When you start using those first singular pronouns, I, me and my, then we isolate people.

  • Larva is singular, Larvae is plural.

  • An important waganga, the singular of waganga, Salum Mhunzi, adopted me as his daughter.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Beausoleil, Claude. Life in the Singular. Selected Poems: 1993-1999. Toronto: Guernica Editions, Inc., 2004. 116 pp. $10.00 paper.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Singulars and plurals: datum, data; schema, schemas; appendix, appendixes; matrix, matrices.

    Academic text (2002)

  • When discussing grammar, we need to remember that 'singular' nouns refer to one person or thing.

Synonyms

singular form
vssingular
  • Specialized
1.8

The form of a word used for one person or thing

is a shorter general label for that same grammatical form

Antonyms

plural
12 1.0

A form of a word that shows more than one thing, like nouns and pronouns

plural form
1 1.6

A change in a word that shows more than one person or thing

Compounds

singular matrix
  • Specialized
8.8

A square matrix with determinant zero that has no inverse

singular proposition
  • Specialized
9.5

A statement that talks about one particular person or thing

singular form
  • Specialized
1.8

The form of a word used for one person or thing

Surface Forms

singular singular
singulars plural

Etymology

Singular as a noun names the form used for 'one' and comes from Latin, like the common word single. So the singular form of a noun is the form you use when you mean one person or one thing.