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PRONUNCIATION OF PLURALITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLURALITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pluralities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLURALITIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Benefice

A benefice /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/ is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services. The Roman Empire used the Latin term beneficium as a benefit to an individual from the Empire for services rendered. Its use was adopted by the western church in the Carolingian Era as a benefit bestowed by the crown or church officials. A benefice specifically from a church is called a precaria such as a stipend and one from a monarch or nobleman is usually called a fief. A benefice is distinct from an allod, in that an allod is property owned outright, not bestowed by a higher authority. Girolamo and cardinal Marco Corner investing Marco, abbot of Carrara, with his benefice, Titian, ca 1520...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLURALITIES

plur.
plural
plural voting
pluralisation
pluralise
pluraliser
pluralism
pluralist
pluralistic
pluralistically
plurality
pluralization
pluralize
pluralizer
plurally
pluriliteral
plurilocular
pluripara
pluriparae
pluripotent

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLURALITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of pluralities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PLURALITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pluralities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pluralities

Translation of «pluralities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLURALITIES

Find out the translation of pluralities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pluralities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pluralities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多根
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pluralidades
570 millions of speakers

English

pluralities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pluralities
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التعدديات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

множественности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pluralidades
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বহুত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pluralités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pluralities
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Viel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

複数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

복수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pluralities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pluralities
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pluralities
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनेकवचन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çoklukları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pluralità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

liczbę mnogą
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

множинності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pluralităților
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολλαπλότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pluralities
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flertalen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flerheter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pluralities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLURALITIES»

The term «pluralities» is regularly used and occupies the 95.967 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLURALITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pluralities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pluralities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pluralities

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLURALITIES»

Discover the use of pluralities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pluralities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pluralities
In the course of the book, the reader will become acquainted with the linguistics data that lies at the heart of this debate including extensive discussion of reciprocals and of collectives (such as the committee).
Roger Schwarzschild, 1996
2
Literary Pluralities
This is a co-publication of Broadview Press and the Journal of Canadian Studies.
Christl Verduyn, 1998
3
The Quest for Plausible Christian Discourse in a World of ...
This book critically examines David Tracy's well-known methodology of fundamental theology, namely his revisionist model as developed in his Blessed Rage for Order (1975), together with his methodological shifts through the 1980s, 1990s and ...
Younhee Kim, 2008
4
Gender, Justice and Legal Pluralities:: Latin American and ...
While they are an important part of globalized legal pluralities, rights are just one amongst many ways of understanding personhood or of challenging injustice. In the end it is only by understanding the complex processes whereby human ...
Rachel Sieder, John Andrew McNeish, 2013
5
Persons, Powers, and Pluralities: Toward a Trinitarian ...
This book develops each of these areas of Torrance's thought in order to articulate a theology of culture rooted in a Christian understanding of God as triune, creation as contingent, and human persons as stewards created in the image of ...
Eric G. Flett, 2011
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Discourses on various subjects. To which are added, ...
Samuel Disney John Disney. a physician, a divine ; a shop-keeper, a farmer, and a day- labourer, are all links of one great chain, connected with, and dependent upon, the public-good. The nature, therefore, of every office, implies personal ...
Samuel Disney, John Disney, 1788
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Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register
New Jersey. . , Pennsylvania Delaware Total , 2,428,92 1 373,306 1,724,033 78,085 4,604,315 18.16 17.26 16.70 13.88 per 9.29 8 93 835 7.64 Votes for j Pluralities Van Buren for Harr.n per cent. ! per cent. ^55 .62 17.47 SSH 8.74 8.31 8 33 6 ...
Samuel Hazard, 1842
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Experience and Judgment
Absolute substrates, therefore, are divided into substrates which are "unities" of and in -pluralities, and into substrates which are themselves pluralities. At first this division is relative, but it leads — in experience — to absolute unities and ...
Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Landgrebe, 1973
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An Apology for the Church of England: In Reply to the Cavils ...
In the second place, it can be easily proved that Pluralities and Non-residence are equally unconnected with it. Now iu the consideration of this subject, 1 would observe that whilst on the one hand we ought not to defend acknowledged ...
James Bassnett Mills, 1831
10
A letter to ... the archbishop of Canterbury, on his grace's ...
of which the object is to lessen the number of pluralities, will have the boldness ere long to introduce one for their total abolition. I am sure when your Grace reflects that;}; 4809 parishes are without resident incumbents, owing to a want of fit ...
Edward Hull, 1831

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLURALITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pluralities is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The end of liberalism?
... values we are committed to, the conflict between those pluralities, and the conflict between policies that increasingly realize these pluralities. «OUPblog, Jul 15»
2
Ipsos/Reuters Poll: Supreme Court
However, pluralities oppose allowing Congress or the President (43%) or state governments (48%) to overrule SCOTUS decisions. «Ipsos News & Polls, Jul 15»
3
Why Republicans Are Losing the Obamacare Battle
In the not too distant past, pluralities and even majorities viewed the president's signature legislative accomplishment unfavorably. This fact ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
4
Public Opinion on the Confederate Flag and the Civil War
Question wordings which offered the options of states' rights or slavery as the main cause found pluralities choosing states' rights over slavery; ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
Interactive Map: Millennial Generation Comes to the Fore in NJ and …
... percentages of non-Hispanic white residents -- more than 85 percent -- and the greatest pluralities of boomers -- more than 30 percent. «NJ Spotlight, Jul 15»
6
Defence: Solidarity, Trust and Threat Perception
Only in the US and Canada did more than half of respondents answer “should” use force, although pluralities also did so in the UK (49% vs. «ISN, Jul 15»
7
Obama starts out ahead on the Iran deal. It might not last.
Americans support idea of a deal. Public polls show majorities or pluralities of Americans support the broad strokes of the deal, ranging from 46 ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
8
Why Should Washington Confront Russia if Europeans Won't Protect …
Only pluralities said yes in Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. (Yet Poland is insisting that everyone else defend it!) The highest European ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Hillary Clinton finally stakes out an anti-gun position
Starting last year, there were clear majorities, rather than just pluralities, indicating that protecting gun rights was more important than any new ... «Hot Air, Jul 15»
10
50TH ANNIVERSARY: The perils of participatory journalism
Sure, she won pluralities that would make dictators blush. Sure, she gained worldwide fame for her non-stop leadership during the Mississauga ... «Mississauga, Jul 15»

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