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plural 音标拼音: [pl'ʊrəl] n. 复数
a. 复数的,两个以上的,复性的 复数复数的,两个以上的,复性的 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 [ synonym: { plural}, { plural form}] [ ant: { singular}, { singular form}] Plural \ Plu" ral\, n. ( Gram.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] Plural faith, which is too much by one. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Plural number} ( Gram.), the number which designates more than one. See { Number}, n., 8. [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " plural": a certain number, a few, certain, composite, dual, more, more than one, nonuniqueness, not singular, number, numerous, numerousness, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality, pluralness, plurative, several, singular, some, trial, variety, variousPLURAL. 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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