PLUR
1 Americannoun
abbreviation
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plural.
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plurality.
abbreviation
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plural
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plurality
Etymology
Origin of PLUR
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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May, an irregular active verb, signifying "to have and to exercise might or strength," indic. mood, pres. tense, second pers. plur. agreeing with its nom. you.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
Several among them consider it as plur. majest.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Man, swé-ka; plur. swé-yi-ka; young man, swé-wūs; old man, kwilt-chák.
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
But it is also an infinitive whose plur. is Harîmát=the women of a family; and in places it is still used for the women's apartment, the gynaeceum.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
We find sing. an-s, an, plur. an, ans.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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