1987, Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams, editors,The Encyclopedia of religion, volume 3:
Although the nation was far moreplural than Canada in the number of its Christian groups
2006, Suisheng Zhao,Debating political reform in China: rule of law vs. democratization, page29:
The Hong Kong and Singapore markets are way more "plural" than most Western economies, but they have not led to pluralistic politics.
2007, Lachelle Renee Hannickel,From cultural transgressions to literary transformations: ..., page195:
History is perhaps moreplural than traditionally imagined, leaving room for more groups to express their story.
2009, Pille Valk,Teenagers' perspectives on the role of religion in their lives, ..., page281:
Generally the girls tend to perceive their social world as somewhat moreplural than boys do. Several of these questions reveal that there are more boys (61%) than girls (39%) who 'do not know' about the religion of others
2011, Harald E. Braun with Edward Vallance,The Renaissance Conscience, page50:
Yet More's conscience was responding to a world just a little moreplural than the world he was born in
(grammar,uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
1895, William W. Goodwin,A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged., page34:
"There are three numbers; the singular, the dual, and theplural. [...] The dual is sometimes used to denote two objects, but even here theplural is more common."
(grammar,countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has adual form.
Theplural of 'cat' is 'cats', but theplural of 'child' is 'children'.
2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, inCNN[1]:
Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers. For example, the Malayplural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
2016, Lori F. Clarke, “Embracing Polyphony: Voices, Improvisation, and the Hearing Voices Network”, inIntersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, volume 5, number 2, page 6:
Singlet and monocultural identity is so normalized that many voice hearers andplurals don’t share their experiences with anyone, living in isolation (and sometimes in poverty) and spending considerable inner resources to manage postures and performances of ‘mental health’.
More strongly, respect might require that singlets themselves accept, in the context of interacting withplurals, that people are truly distinct people.
2020, Tynan Drake, "Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction", paper submitted to Ball State University,page 14:
Autistics,plurals, and gender nonconforming individuals are all stigmatized as not being capable of understanding their own experiences and are repeatedly attacked with narratives intended to make them doubt their own emotions, memories, and sense of self.
Many languages havesingular for one item and plural for more than one item. Some languages also have adual form for two, atrial form for three, or apaucal form for several (e.g.Fijian). Other languages do not distinguish any of these categories.
While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used forzero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity that is not equal to one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
