plural
adj 1: composed of more than one member, set, or kind [ant:
singular]
2: grammatical number category referring to two or more items or
units [ant: singular]
n 1: the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
[syn: plural, plural form] [ant: singular, singular
form]
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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.
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Plural faith, which is too much by one. --Shak.
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Plural number (Gram.), the number which designates more
than one. See Number, n., 8.
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PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one,
as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the
testator, died without children, and he died leaving one child, the devise
would not take effect. See Dig. 50, 16, 148; Id. 35, 1, 101, 1; Id. 3 1, 17,
4 Code, 6, 49, 6, 2; Shelf. on L 559, 589. See Singular.
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