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Grammatical number
languages, a plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, pl., or pl), is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically
Plural
Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced
Mormonism_and_polygamy
Use of grammar in a language to express number
English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements
Grammatical_number
Individuals with multiple personalities
plurality exist online, including sites for blogging or instant messaging. The plural subculture also includes some who practice tulpamancy as part of the identity
Plural_identity
Punctuation or diacritical mark (')
coats") It is also used in a few exceptional cases for the marking of plurals, e.g., "p's and q's" or Oakland A's. The same mark is used as a single
Apostrophe
How English plurals are formed; typically -(e)s
English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals are
English_plurals
Form of plurality
A double plural is a plural form to which an extra suffix has been added, mainly because the original plural suffix (or other variation) had become unproductive
Double_plural
Use of a first-person plural pronoun to refer to a single person
known as the majestic plural (Latin: pluralis majestatis) or royal plural, is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms)
Royal_we
Election voting practice
Plural voting is the electoral rule that a voter might cast multiple ballots in an election. This can happen if a voter is allowed to cast a single vote
Plural_voting
Wives of founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Latter Day Saint movement, taught and practiced religious polygamy, termed "plural marriage" during his adulthood, marrying an estimated 30 to 40 wives throughout
List_of_Joseph_Smith's_wives
Left-wing online newspaper
La Vanguardia and TVE. Despite its geographical origin in Catalonia, El Plural deals with national and international topics, and over time a fixed section
El_Plural
Grammatical category
plural forms, and sometimes dual form as well (grammatical number). Some other languages use different classifying systems, especially in the plural pronouns
Grammatical_person
Personal pronoun to denote the interlocutor
English, the word "you" is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern
You
Plural nouns in the Romance languages
The plurals of the Romance languages and their historical origin and development are an important area of study in comparative and historical Romance
Romance_plurals
Irregular plural forms in Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages
In linguistics, a broken plural (or internal plural) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic
Broken_plural
Word for deity or deities in the Hebrew Bible
verses it takes plural agreement and refers to gods in the plural. It is also the word used for judges. Morphologically, the word is the plural form of the
Elohim
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
inflected form include irregular plural nouns, such as the English plurals mice, children, and women and the French yeux (the plural of œil, 'eye'); and irregular
Inflection
Partitive plural is a grammatical number that is used to modify a noun which represents a part of some whole amount, as opposed to the comprehensive plural, used
Partitive_plural
Masculine third-person, singular personal pronoun in English
Proto-Germanic demonstrative base *hi-, from PIE *ko- "this"—which had a plural and three genders in the singular. The modern pronoun it developed out of
He_(pronoun)
Romance language
singular before vowels. In the plural: gli is the masculine plural of lo and l'; i is the plural of il; and le is the plural of feminine la and l'. There
Italian_language
English language pluralization rules
In English, the plural form of words ending in -us, especially those derived from Latin, often replaces -us with -i. There are many exceptions, some because
Plural form of words ending in -us
Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up category in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Category, plural categories, may refer to: Classification, the general act of allocating things to
Category
West Germanic language
Regular plural formation: Singular: cat, dog Plural: cats, dogs Irregular plural formation: Singular: man, woman, foot, fish, ox, knife, mouse Plural: men
English_language
Mathematical theory
In mathematics and logic, plural quantification is the theory that an individual variable x may take on plural, as well as singular, values. As well as
Plural_quantification
Using the plural form to indicate abstraction
The plural of abstraction, or plurale abstractum (Latin for "abstract plural"), is the linguistic phenomenon of using a plural form to turn a concrete
Plural_of_abstraction
Grammatical case
and the plural of nouns in the genitive and accusative are easily distinguishable from each other, e.g., kuä'cǩǩmi "eagles' (genitive plural)" and kuä'cǩǩmid
Genitive_case
A plural society is defined by Fredrik Barth as a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups, and their ecological
Plural_society
First-person plural personal pronoun in English
ourselves in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In Modern English, we is a plural, first-person pronoun. In Standard Modern English, we has six distinct shapes
We
Bantu language of Uganda
plural ba (Class I) Singular gwa, plural gya (Class II) Singular ya, plural za (Class III) Singular kya, plural bya (Class IV) Singular lya, plural ga
Luganda
Multi-member district in the U.S.
Plural districts are electoral districts that elect more than one member or representative. Unless staggered terms are used or the separate seats in a
Plural_district
Part of Latin grammar
vocative are always identical in the plural. The dative, ablative, and locative are always identical in the plural. For neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative
Latin_declension
1983 collection of essays by Abdelkebir Khatibi
Plural Maghreb (in French: Maghreb pluriel) is a book of critical essays written by Abdelkebir Khatibi first published in 1983. The book, containing six
Plural_Maghreb
Left-wing coalition in France
The Gauche Plurielle (French for Plural Left) was a left-wing coalition in France, composed of the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS), the French
Plural_Left
Principal language of Akan lands in Ghana
nouns and can employ multiple plural-marking strategies simultaneously. Modern Twi-Fante employs several strategies for plural formation, representing a transition
Twi-Fante_language
Gender-neutral English pronoun
singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they. Singular they has been criticized since the mid-18th century by prescriptive
Singular_they
Ancient South Semitic language
using an internal plural. Plural using suffix: ዓመት ʿāmat ("year") plural ዓመታት ʿāmatāt, ገዳም gadām ("wilderness, uninhabited area") plural ገዳማት gadāmāt, ሊቅ
Geʽez
Mormon doctrine that marriage can last forever in heaven
term “celestial marriage” was essentially synonymous with polygamy (called plural marriage), which many leaders taught was required for exaltation in the
Celestial_marriage
Topics referred to by the same term
student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga List of art media (plural: media), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work Medium
Medium
Shortened form of a word or phrase
one letter: for example COS for consul and COSS for its nominative etc. plural consules. Abbreviations were frequently used in early English. Manuscripts
Abbreviation
Topics referred to by the same term
Plural Left was a left-wing coalition which governed France from 1997 to 2002. Plural Left may also refer to: Plural Left (Guadeloupe), political party
Plural_Left_(disambiguation)
Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase
cross-linguistically. An example of a pronoun is "you", which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal
Pronoun
European Union, as well as in relation to grammar and the formation of plurals. In official documents, the name "euro" must be used for the nominative
Language_and_the_euro
English archaic 2nd person singular pronoun
English: þū, pronounced [θuː]) was simply the singular counterpart to the plural pronoun ye, derived from an ancient Indo-European root. In Middle English
Thou
Technique marking plural ambiguity
An uncertain plural occurs when a writer does not know in advance whether a word should be written in the singular or plural. For English nouns, this
Uncertain_plural
Eighth letter of the Latin alphabet
in English is aitch (pronounced /eɪtʃ/ , plural aitches), or regionally haitch (pronounced /heɪtʃ/, plural haitches). For most English speakers, the
H
Romance language
and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced the same as the singular even if spelled
French_language
Declined according to case, state, gender and number
the plural according to the indicated plural declensions. However, most nouns have a plural from a different declension — either a sound plural (declined
Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
Linguistic phenomenon
A reduplicated plural is a grammatical form achieved by the superfluous use of a second plural ending. In English the plural is usually formed with the
Reduplicated_plural
Grammatical number in addition to singular and plural
grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring
Dual_(grammatical_number)
1978 Australian film
Third Person Plural is a 1978 film directed by James Ricketson and starring Bryan Brown. The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop
Third_Person_Plural
West Slavic language
such cases the second vowel is shortened. For example, adding the locative plural ending -ách to the root vín- creates vínach, not *vínách. This law also
Slovak_language
First letter of the Latin alphabet
and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced as in say), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which
A
Linguistic system of noun classification
singular number but not in plural. In terms of linguistic markedness, these languages neutralize the gender opposition in the plural, itself a marked category
Grammatical_gender
Type of inflection whereby a word changes form depending on related words
singular, second person plural and so on. Some examples: I really am (1st pers. singular) vs. We really are (1st pers. plural) The boy sings (3rd pers
Agreement_(linguistics)
Noun that appears only in the plural form
A plurale tantum (Latin for 'plural only'; pl. pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for
Plurale_tantum
2022 anthology about Wales
Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales is a 2022 Welsh non-fiction book. Edited by Darren Chetty, Hanan Issa, Grug Muse, and Iestyn Tyne, the book
Welsh_(Plural)
Grammar of the Polish language
ending in the plural, regardless of gender or declension class: dative plural in -om, instrumental plural in -ami or -mi, and locative plural in -ach; the
Polish_grammar
Ninth letter of the Latin alphabet
languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is i (pronounced /ˈaɪ/ ), plural i's or is. In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced
I
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
house" Likewise, the plural marker is usually (albeit not always) added only once when a whole series of coordinated nouns have plural reference: 𒀳𒉺𒇻𒋗𒄩𒂊𒉈
Sumerian_language
Plural policing is a term that describes the idea that the police cannot work on their own as the sole agency to deal with the wide range of issues that
Plural_policing
Formality distinction feature of some languages
Less commonly, the use of the plural may be extended to other grammatical persons, such as the "royal we" (majestic plural) in English. Brown and Gilman
T–V_distinction
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
the dual and plural, the accusative and genitive are merged into a single oblique case. Akkadian, unlike Arabic, has only "sound" plurals formed by means
Akkadian_language
Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico
Nouns that take the plural usually form the plural by adding one of the plural absolutive suffixes -tin or -meh, but some plural forms are irregular or
Nahuatl
Grammatical mood
can be included for emphasis), with no explicit indication of singular or plural. First and third person imperatives are expressed periphrastically, using
Imperative_mood
Type of fortified village in North Africa
Ksar or qṣar (Arabic: قصر, romanized: qṣar), in plural ksour or qsour (Arabic: قصور, romanized: qṣur), is a type of fortified village in North Africa,
Ksar
Grammatical features of Old English
dative), and a vestigial instrumental, two grammatical numbers (singular and plural) and three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). First
Old_English_grammar
Type of noun referring to collections as a unit
English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies
Collective_noun
Language of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania
FIN.2PL 'You (plural) ate.' Dóor-óon /doːroːn/ hit-PAST ngéen /ŋɡeːn/ FIN.2PL Dóor-óon ngéen /doːroːn/ /ŋɡeːn/ hit-PAST FIN.2PL 'You (plural) hit.' There
Wolof_language
Language of the ancient Urartu, now the Eastern Anatolia region
-ne-) for the singular, -ne-lə for the plural in the absolutive case and -na- for the other forms of the plural. They are referred to as "anaphoric suffixes"
Urartian_language
Latin language in the period before 70 BC
dative/ablative/locative plural -eis comes from earlier -ois, a merger of PIE instrumental plural *-ōis and locative plural *-oisu. The form -ois appears
Old_Latin
(masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with the noun they determine, though most have only one plural form (for masculine and feminine). Many
French articles and determiners
French_articles_and_determiners
Rothmann initially opposed the idea of plural marriage. However, he later wrote a theological defense of plural marriage, and took nine wives himself,
Polygamy_in_Christianity
Group of West Germanic languages
as a single plural ending for all persons of the verb, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, common changes to the Germanic vowel *a, a plural form -as, and
North_Sea_Germanic
Extinct ancient language of Mesopotamia
language, the plural marker (5) merges with the case morphemes (6) in ways which do not seem to be entirely predictable, so singular and plural forms of the
Hurrian_language
Abbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase
requires an apostrophe when pluralizing all abbreviations regardless of periods (preferring "PC's, TV's and VCR's"). Possessive plurals that also include apostrophes
Acronym
2017 book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870 is a non-fiction book written by American historian Laurel Thatcher
A_House_Full_of_Females
Grammar of the Arabic language
use of the dual number and (for most varieties) the loss of the feminine plural. Many Arabic dialects, Maghrebi Arabic in particular, also have significant
Arabic_grammar
Sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
and others worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced /ˈpiː/ ), plural pees. The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the
P
Currency of Guatemala
currency. It is divided into 100 centavos, or len (plural lenes) in Guatemalan slang. The plural is quetzales. The quetzal was introduced in 1925 during
Guatemalan_quetzal
Practice of using "we" to refer to a singular subject
free dictionary. Nosism (from Latin nos 'we') is the practice of using the plural pronoun we to refer to a singular subject, particularly when expressing
Nosism
GNU internationalization and localization software
gettext provides an option to use different strings for any number of plural forms of nouns, but this feature has no support for grammatical gender.
Gettext
West Germanic language
varieties and Low German varieties is the plural of the verbs. Low German varieties have a common verbal plural ending, whereas Low Franconian varieties
Low_German
Political party in Guadeloupe
The Plural Left (French: Gauche Plurielle) was a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The party has one seat in the French
Plural_Left_(Guadeloupe)
Form of the Greek language found in Homer
to η. Exceptions include nouns like θεᾱ́ ("a goddess"), and the genitive plural of first-declension nouns and the genitive singular of masculine first-declension
Homeric_Greek
Branching network of vessels or nerves
the central nervous system. The standard plural form in English is plexuses. Alternatively, the Latin plural plexūs may be used. The four primary nerve
Plexus
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
plural, *t- for second person plural and singular and feminine third person singular, and *y/*i- for third person masculine and third person plural;
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
Dormant Northwest Caucasian language
/ɐkʲʼɜn/ ('he goes'), /ɐkʲʼɐn/ ('they go'). The second person plural prefix /ɕʷ/- triggers this plural suffix regardless of whether that prefix represents the
Ubykh_language
Definite article in English
used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter or sound. This is different
The
Mormon anti-polygamy statement
Manifesto") is a statement which officially advised against any future plural marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
1890_Manifesto
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
examples given in the indefinite, definite singular, definite plural, and definite close plural of the word etxe, "house", "home": absolutive (etxe, etxea
Grammatical_case
corresponding noun. German articles – like adjectives and pronouns – have the same plural forms for all three genders. This article, ein-, is used equivalently to
German_articles
Nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced /ˈɛs/ ), plural esses. Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative
S
Fifth letter of the Latin alphabet
languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is e (pronounced /ˈiː/ ); plural es, Es, or E's. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including
E
North Germanic language
preserving dialects. Norwegian nouns are inflected for number (singular/plural) and for definiteness (indefinite/definite). In a few dialects, definite
Norwegian_language
Variety of Spanish language
allá. "Go there" (ve in Peninsular) The plural imperative uses the ustedes form (i. e. the third person plural subjunctive, as corresponding to ellos)
Rioplatense_Spanish
Art gallery in Armenian Street, Singapore
Art Plural Gallery is an art gallery in Singapore. It shows modern and contemporary art and design. It has been called one of the ten best contemporary
Art_Plural_Gallery
Name for a resident of a particular geographical area
(singular), Batswana (plural) Burundi → Umurundi (singular), Abarundi (plural) Eswatini → Liswati (singular), Emaswati (plural) Lesotho → Mosotho (singular)
Demonym
Grammar of the Swedish language
order: Nouns form the plural in a variety of ways. It is customary to classify Swedish nouns into five declensions based on their plural indefinite endings:
Swedish_grammar
Third-person plural or gender-neutral pronoun
þair), in which it was a masculine plural demonstrative pronoun. It comes from Proto-Germanic *thai, nominative plural pronoun, from PIE *to-, demonstrative
They
Vernacular Arabic spoken in Morocco
Write the letter) She/it wrote: ketb-et / ketb-at We wrote: kteb-na You (plural) wrote: kteb-tu / kteb-tiu They wrote: ketb-u The stem kteb turns into ketb
Moroccan_Arabic
PLURAL
PLURAL
Surname or Lastname
Dutch, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Dutch, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant (plural) of Linde.English : variant spelling of Lindon.Belgian and Dutch (van Linden) : habitational name from places called Linden in Brabant and North Brabant.Dutch (van der Linden) : habitational name from any of numerous places called Ter Linde.Irish : reduced form of McLinden.Swedish (Lindén) : ornamental name from lind ‘lime tree’ + the common suffix -én, from the Latin adjectival ending -enius.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (Old English lǣs).English : habitational name from Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old English lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of lēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal house in a district’.English : variant spelling of Leece 1.Scottish : reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish : reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch : variant of Leys.
Surname or Lastname
English (North Yorkshire)
English (North Yorkshire) : habitational name, apparently from Leathley in North Yorkshire, so named from Old English hlith ‘slope’ (genitive plural hleotha) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
Cornish
Cornish : habitational name from a minor place named Kellow, from Cornish kellow, plural of kelli ‘wood’, ‘grove’.English : habitational name from Kelloe in Durham, named from Old English celf ‘calf’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.Scottish : from the lands of Kelloe in Berwickshire, or in some cases possibly a variant of Kellogg.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English cnihta, genitive plural of cniht ‘servant’, ‘retainer’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : nickname for a stubborn or narrow-minded man, from Old French marre ‘ram’.English : variant spelling of Marr.Italian : from the plural of marra (see Marra).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Mander 1.English : habitational name from Maund Bryan or Rose Maund in Herefordshire, possibly named in Old English as ‘(place at) the hollows’, from the dative plural of maga ‘stomach’ (used in a topographical sense). Mills suggests it may alternatively be a survival of an ancient Celtic term magnis, probably meaning ‘the rocks’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or by a hillock, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English knoll ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll; see Knoll), or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tnúthghail (see Newell).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Low 3 and 4.English : topographic name rom the plural of Middle English lowe ‘mound’, ‘hill’ (see Low 1).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Knightley in Staffordshire, named in Old English as ‘the wood or clearing of the retainers’, from cnihtÄ, genitive plural of cnihta ‘servant’, ‘retainer’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a person considered prodigious in some way, from Middle English, Old French merveille ‘miracle’ (Latin mirabilia, originally neuter plural of the adjective mirabilis ‘admirable’, ‘amazing’). The nickname was no doubt sometimes given with mocking intent.English : habitational name, from places called Merville. The one in Nord is named from Old French mendre ‘smaller’, ‘lesser’ (Latin minor) + ville ‘settlement’; that in Calvados seems to have as its first element a Germanic personal name, probably a short form of a compound name with the first element mari, meri ‘famous’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Mains.Catalan (Mainés) : variant spelling of Mainers, plural form of Mainer.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Loftus in Cleveland, Lofthouse in West Yorkshire, or Loftsome in East Yorkshire. All are named from Old Norse lopt ‘loft’, ‘upper storey’ + hús ‘house’, the last being derived from the dative plural form, húsum. Houses built with an upper storey (which was normally used for the storage of produce during the winter) were a considerable rarity among the ordinary people of the Middle Ages.Irish : English surname adopted by certain bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Lochlainn (see Laughlin) or Ó Lachtnáin (see Lough).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Latimer, or possibly of Latter 2.German : occupational name for someone who prepared or used laths or slats, from Middle High German latte ‘slat’, ‘lath’ + -n (plural suffix) + the agent suffix -er.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, of unknown etymology (probably a pre-English hill name, but the form is obscure).German : from the genitive plural of Kind ‘child’, possibly denoting someone who had a lot of children, as in Hans der Kinder ‘Hans of the children’ (Eisleben 15th century), or short for some compound such as Kindervater ‘male midwife’ or Kinderfreund ‘one who likes children’.German : variant of Günther (see Guenther).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a bookbinder, from Anglo-Norman French liur.English : possibly a topographic name (recorded in 1332 as le Lyghere) for someone who lived in a woodland clearing, from a derivative of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.German : short form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + hari ‘army’.German : possibly a topographic name formed with the element lir ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, or a habitational name from Lier, named with this word.Dutch : habitational name from Lier, in the Belgian province of Antwerp.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the indefinite plural form of li ‘mountain slope’, ‘hillside’ (see Li 4).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Suffolk, named in Old English with mylenas, plural of mylen ‘mill’.Scottish and northern Irish (of Scottish origin) : from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Maol Ãosa ‘devotee of Jesus’.Greek : variant of Melis.Dutch : unexplained.Latvian : nickname from mells ‘black’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently a habitational name from a place called Kenfield Hall in Kent, so named from Old English cyning ‘king’ (genitive plural cyninga ‘of the kings’) + feld ‘open country’.
Surname or Lastname
Austrian
Austrian : occupational name for a cowherd, Chüyger in the Tyrolean dialect, from Kühe ‘cows’ (plural of Kuh) + -er suffix of agent nouns.English and Scottish : possibly a variant spelling of Kear.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places in northern England named with the dative plural form (used originally after a preposition) of Old Norse hlaða ‘barn’ (dative plural hlǫðum, i.e. ‘at the barns’), as for example Latham in West Yorkshire, Lathom in Lancashire, and Laytham in East Yorkshire.
PLURAL
PLURAL
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Divine Place
Boy/Male
Native American
Blackbird.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Servant of Dwaraka
Male
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name CHIEN means "fighter, warrior."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Harbour.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Youthful, Lord Shiva
Boy/Male
Tamil
Yogadeva | யோகதேவா
Lord of Yoga
Girl/Female
Indian
Gift
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian, Telugu
New
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English, French, German
Keeper of the Garden; Occupational Name; Gardener; Surname
PLURAL
PLURAL
PLURAL
PLURAL
PLURAL
n.
The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
pl.
of Plurality
n.
Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
v. t.
To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.
v. t.
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
n.
The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
n.
The act of pluralizing.
n.
The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
adv.
In a plural manner or sense.
v. i.
To take a plural; to assume a plural form; as, a noun pluralizes.
n.
The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
a.
Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
n.
See Plurality of benefices, below.
n.
A pluralist.
imp. & p. p.
of Pluralize
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pluralize
n.
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
n.
One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
n.
An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
n.
The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.