plural

Meanings

Adjective

• Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
• In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
• Pluralistic.

Noun

• The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
• A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
• A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.

Related

Similar words

• manifold
• multiple
• morefold
• several

Origin

• From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel ("plural"), borrowed from Latin pluralis ("of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many"), from plus, pluris + -alis.