What part of speech is plurality?

Plurality can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does plurality mean?

Definitions

Noun

plurality - (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
plurality - the state of being plural; "to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable"
plurality - a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"

Examples of plurality

#   Sentence  
1. noun To mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable.
2. noun A plurality of religions.
3. noun While there is a plurality of Tatoeba sentences in English, it is encouraging that Esperanto, Italian, German, Turkish, Russian, French and Spanish already have respectable numbers of sentences as well.
Sentence  
noun
To mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable.
A plurality of religions.
While there is a plurality of Tatoeba sentences in English, it is encouraging that Esperanto, Italian, German, Turkish, Russian, French and Spanish already have respectable numbers of sentences as well.

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