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plural

/ploor-uhl/US // ˈplʊər əl //UK // (ˈplʊərəl) //

复数,众数,复数的,复数的方式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : consisting of, containing, or pertaining to more than one.
    • : pertaining to or involving a plurality of persons or things.
    • : being one of such a plurality.
    • : Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number, found in many languages, indicating that a word has more than one referent, as in English men, or more than two referents, as in Old English ge, meaning “you.”
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Grammar.

    • : the plural number.
    • : a form in the plural.

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Examples

  • Well, it’s great because you captured one of the things I was thinking, that data is not the plural of anecdote, per se.

  • Overall, I wish Isaacson had created more of a mosaic, one similar to his history of the early computer industry — “The Innovators,” properly plural.

  • While the story of “Sea” was told by a poetic plural narrator and meandered through a hazy dystopian landscape, “My Year Abroad” is set in the present day and punctuated by the colorful and vibrant language of a college kid.

  • Let's break down all of the ways you can address the plural you.

  • If you think all of that is interesting, get a lot of this - in the Appalachian and Western Pennsylvania region of the United States, they came up with the word "yinz" in order to address the plural you.

  • And the plural could be knaidels, or knaidelach, or knaidlach, or knaideluch.

  • As GO is a word referring to the game, so its plural gos is.

  • Actually, the issue of plural vs. singular is orthogonal to the dilemma she wants to pose.

  • Illuminati is the plural of illuminatus, which means “enlightened.”

  • But as a great mentor once told me, the plural of anecdote is not data.

  • The Provençal has not even the formal distinction of the nouns in al, which in French make their plural in aux.

  • For word Percy printed words, quite forgetting that the M.E. plural is dissyllabic (word-es).

  • In the same letter he admits that he had close relations with Spain, and throughout uses the first person plural.

  • The use of the plural possessive thrilled the heart of the workers; the club was a family possession.

  • Like numerous other nouns, it has its diminutive in os, its plural in wug, and its local form in ing.