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pluplurals

pluplurals is the plural of pluplural.

Meaning of pluplural

Noun

pluplural (plural pluplurals)

  1. (rhetoric) A word that is its own plural; an autological plural form.
  2. A pluralized plural; a variable or term that refers to a collection of plural collections, without reducing them to a single set or composite unit.
    • How will this plural approach translate sentences of DKLish that are themselves plurally quantified? As Gabriel Uzquiano (2004) points out, 'pluplural' quantifiers over simples will be needed...2009, Theodore Sider, “Ontological Realism”, in Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, page 395

Questions about pluplurals

What is pluplurals the plural of?
Pluplurals is the plural of pluplural.

Words near pluplurals in the dictionary

  1. pluperfectly
  2. pluperfectness
  3. pluperfects
  4. pluplural
  5. plupluralism
  6. pluplurals
  7. PLUR
  8. plur.
  9. pluractional
  10. pluractionality
  11. pluractionals

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