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
They owned slaves, but this population was drawn from a wide range of conquered peoples, including Gauls and Germans.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Russell's book on the soil tells how the ancient Gauls and Britons used to fertilize their land with marl, and how the tides help to fertilize England.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hallam Hawksworth
