Translation
several, more than one
Word origin
From Latin plures ('more, several'), the root behind French plusieurs and English plural.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- plures
- English cognates
- plural, plus
Examples
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I read several books on that question.
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Several people were waiting in front of the door.
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She stayed in the city for several days.
lives almost entirely in the plural, , for the obvious reason that "more than one" of anything is rarely singular. It sits between , a few, and , many: insists on the count being greater than one without promising a crowd. The singular does earn its keep occasionally, in phrases like , in more than one copy. , keep going, and , more, are close cousins from the same Latin family.
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