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  • PLUR
    PLUR
    noun
    peace, love, unity, respect: a mantra embraced by some popular culture communities, especially those associated with rave and electronic dance music events.
  • plur.
    plur.
    abbreviation
    plural.

PLUR

1 American  
[plur] / plɜr /

noun

  1. peace, love, unity, respect: a mantra embraced by some popular culture communities, especially those associated with rave and electronic dance music events.

    ravers making new friends in the spirit of PLUR.


plur. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. plural.

  2. plurality.


plur. British  

abbreviation

  1. plural

  2. plurality

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of PLUR

First recorded in 1985–90

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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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