In dictionaries:
the plural
plural form
Multiple instances of a noun.
Plural society
A plural society is defined by Fredrik Barth as a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups, and their ecological specialization (i.e., use of different environmental resources by each ethnic group).
plural noun
(grammar) The plural form of a common noun
plural nouns
plural marriage
Marriage involving more than two.
plural number
Quantity of more than one.
Plural voting
Multiple votes based on criteria.
plural executive
plural wife
A co-wife in a polygamous marriage.
broken plural
An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).
double plural
(grammar) A word doubly inflected for the plural grammatical number in relation to its singular form; e.g., medium → media → medias.
plural quantification
In mathematics and logic, plural quantification is the theory that an individual variable x may take on plural, as well as singular, values.
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