pluralize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(intr) to hold more than one ecclesiastical benefice or office at the same time
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to make or become plural
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Etymology
Origin of pluralize
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When a student trying to figure out how to pluralize singular nouns asked, “No plural?” she chirped: “No! How neat, right?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Some people pluralize nouns that would be grammatically correct as singular.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Sir: Please tell me I am wrong; please do not tell me that you attempted to pluralize the Latin tempus and made it into tempi!
From Time Magazine Archive
He and his associates had definitely decided to pluralize the term.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Wherever there are mothers, grandmothers, and nurses there are Mother Gooses,—or; shall we say, Mother Geese—for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this old dame.
From The Chinese Boy and Girl by Headland, Isaac Taylor
It’s used as a common noun and can be pluralized or singular, for instance: “you should set a passkey for your banking app.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022
"Clay has been ghettoized, and it needs to be pluralized."
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
Also unlike English ones, Arabic nouns are only pluralized if they describe a number between 3 and 10.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017
The saying also surfaced, pluralized, in “Breathless,” via a recorded spoken-word recitation by Mr. Blanchard’s son, who goes by JRei Oliver.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2016
But Richard Hiley says, "Proper nouns, when pluralized, follow the same rules as common nouns; as, Venus, the Venuses; Ajax, the Ajaxes; Cato, the Catoes; Henry, the Henries."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
In the early 1990s, the internet was already democratizing and pluralizing spirituality.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
From there, he coached me on saving my Ss for big-ticket, pluralizing plays and putting high-value letters on double-letter squares.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2017
That didn’t take, but the pluralizing of everyone did.
From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014
Does pluralizing a word ever change the accent?
From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by Hathaway, B. A.
Certain compounds change the form of the first word in pluralizing, as: court-martial, brother-in-law, sister-in-law.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.
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