The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Hannibal intended to hammer at the Romans with overwhelming numbers; his forces were bolstered, the author relates, by mercenaries whose ranks included “Ligurians, Gauls, Balearic islanders and Mauretanians.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Gauls constructed villas with Roman features such as tiled roofing, stone masonry, and peristyle or columned courtyards.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of wild boars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
“There were contradictions between these classes—sometimes we joked that we didn’t know if our ancestors were the Gauls or the pharaohs!”
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
Galatian, ga-lā′shi-an, adj. pertaining to Galatia in Asia Minor—colonised by Gauls in the 3d century B.C.—n. a native of Galatia.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
