Plural

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plural \Plu"ral\, a. [L. pluralis, from plus, pluris, more; cf.
     F. pluriel, OF. plurel. See {Plus}.]
     Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or
     more; as, a plural word.
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           Plural faith, which is too much by one.  --Shak.
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     {Plural number} (Gram.), the number which designates more
        than one. See {Number}, n., 8.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plural \Plu"ral\, n. (Gram.)
     The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or
     denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plural
       adj : grammatical number category referring to two or more items
             or units [ant: {singular}]
       n : the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
           [syn: {plural form}] [ant: {singular}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "plural":
     a certain number, a few, certain, composite, dual, more,
     more than one, nonuniqueness, not singular, number, numerous,
     numerousness, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality, pluralness,
     plurative, several, singular, some, trial, variety, various
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one. 
       2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, 
  as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the 
  testator, died without children, and he died leaving one child, the devise 
  would not take effect. See Dig. 50, 16, 148; Id. 35, 1, 101, 1; Id. 3 1, 17, 
  4 Code, 6, 49, 6, 2; Shelf. on L 559, 589. See Singular.