Crossword-Solution: PLURALS
We have 21 clues for the answer “PLURALS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fibulae and tibiae, e.g. | 1 answer |
| e.g. deer, fish and sheep | 1 answer |
| Trials and tribulations, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Stars and stripes, say | 1 answer |
| Nouns like "occupants" and "octopi" | 1 answer |
| Nouns in a certain form. | 1 answer |
| Mice, men, etc. | 1 answer |
| Mice and octopi | 1 answer |
| Mice and men, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Lice and mice, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Ifs, ands and buts, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Forms found at the end of many English nouns | 1 answer |
| Certain nouns and verbs | 2 answers |
| Word forms | 2 answers |
| Cops and robbers, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Dollars and cents, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Cats and dogs | 5 answers |
| BUTS | 6 answers |
| Lions and tigers and bears, e.g. | 7 answers |
| COPS AND ROBBERS (FILM) CAST | 10 answers |
| More than one | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLURALS (5)
The entry is as follows: ``to agree, concurre, cohere, condog, condiscend.'' Mistakes are frequently made in respect of foreign words which retain their original form, especially those which retain their Latin plurals, the feminine singular being often confused with the neuter plural.
Some substantives are what the grammarians call aggregate plurals, {28} “which are not used in the plural without the addition of diminutive terminations, for example adar, birds, aderyn, a bird; gwenyn, bees, gwenynen, a single bee.” There are different kinds of adjectives; some have a plural, some have none; some have a feminine form, others have not; the most common plural termination is ion.
However, for the benefit of those who may be interested in such things I may say that the plurals are formed simply for all words in the Pal-ul-don language by doubling the initial letter of the word, as k'kor, gorges, pronounced as though written kakor, the a having the sound of a in sofa.
Lady Maresfield had been prepared for the plural number, and she was a woman whom it took many plurals to disconcert.
And further unless the vowel a, left after the elision of that letter, be furnished with some etymological mark of distinction, there would be great risk of its being confounded with the â, formative of the singular of many verbal nouns, such as binâ, safâ, jalâ; with the masculine plurals ending in the same letters, such as hukamâ, ághniyâ, kúfarâ; and with the feminine plurals of many adjectives, such as kúbra, súghra, húsna, etc.
Quotes with PLURALS (1)
Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It really wouldn't matter much if we started dropping the s from our plurals. Lots of words get along without it anyway, and in most cases context would be enough to indicate number. Even the distinction between singular and plural verb forms is just as much a polite convention as an essential element of meaning. But the s…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).