Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay , essai ( “ essay ” ) , meaning coined by Montaigne in the same time, from the same words in earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay , essai , assay , assai , from Latin exagium ( “ weight; weighing, testing on the balance ” ) , from exigere + -ium .
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(maqāla), (baḥṯ) (šaradrutʻyun), (ēsse) (rosona) , , , (inşa) (in high school) (tvor), (esé), (nárys) (probondho) (esé), (sǎčinénie), (óčerk) (cacicakum:), (catam:ngai) (zok man ) / (záwén), / (lùnwén), (zuòwén) , , , , ; , (in school) , , (ese), (txzuleba) , (dokímio), (pragmateía), (ékthesi), (sýngrama) (meletḗmata) (masá) (nibandh), (mazmūn) , , (essei), (ずいひつ, zuihitsu) (ésse), (şyğarma), (oçerk), (maqala) (ʼatthaʼbɑt) (supil), (esei) (esse), (dilbayan), (ocerk) , (esej) , , (upanyāsaṁ) (nibandha) (maqāla) (maqâle), (jostâr) , , , (sočinénije), (essɛ́), (óčerk) , , class , (maqola), (navištor), (inšo) (inşa) (vyāsamu) (kwaam-riiang) , (esé), (eséj), (tvir), (nárys) (maqālā), (inśāiyā), (mazmūn) (maqale) , , , , (esey) |
From Middle French essayer , essaier , from Old French essaiier , essayer , essaier , assaiier , assayer , assaier , from essay , essai , assay , assai ( “ attempt; assay; experiment ” ) as above.
essay ( third-person singular simple present essays , present participle essaying , simple past and past participle essayed )
Borrowed from English essay ( “ essay ” ) , from Middle French essai ( “ essay; attempt, assay ” ) , from Old French essai , from Latin exagium (whence the neuter gender).
essay n ( plural essays , diminutive essaytje n )
Norwegian bokmål.
Borrowed from English essay , from Middle French essai .
essay n ( definite singular essayet , indefinite plural essay or essayer , definite plural essaya or essayene )
essay n ( definite singular essayet , indefinite plural essay , definite plural essaya )
Definition of essay noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definition : a public vote on a particular issue
Latin has given English a sizable portion of its vocabulary, and one of the reasons that so many of our words are descended from that language is that they have entered our tongue at a number of distinct points. Some, such as butter , date back to the Roman invasion of Britain. Others came to us in the middle ages, from the Norman Conquest. Others still did not arrive until the 19th century, often as part of an expanding scientific vocabulary. Referendum is one of those late arrivals, initially used to describe a vote on the Swiss constitution at that time. Both referendums and referenda are correct.
Of course it will all take time— The population must be reassured, The boundary must be surveyed, There'll be royal commissions, referenda…. —Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, The Non-Stop Connolly Show: Part Six , 1978 quote here
Definition : a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements
Syllabus comes to English from the Latin sillybus , which actually has nothing to do with buses or silliness ( sillybus refers to a label for a book). Both forms of the plural are acceptable, although people might look askance at you if you use syllabi .
Definition : a large room used for various indoor sports (such as basketball or boxing) and usually equipped with gymnastic apparatus
Very few people use gymnasia as the plural of gymnasium anymore, but it can come in handy if you want to confuse people. And if you desire still more obscure information about this word, know that it can be traced to a Greek word meaning “to exercise naked” ( gymnazein ). The naked aspect of this word’s history has been largely set aside in English, although Nathan Bailey, in his 1727 Universal Etymological English Dictionary , defined the word gymnologize as “to dispute naked, or like an Indian Philosopher.”
"Had you rather witness the sports of the gymnasia than the works of artists?" inquired Plato. —Lydia Maria Francis Child, Philothea , 1836
Definition : a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
Most words have a single plural form, while others feel the need to have two. Others are more gluttonous still (such as octopus , the plural of which may be octopi , octopuses , or octopodes ), and require three different ways of pluralizing. Miasma is one of those triplets. So if you have more than one of these vaporous exhalations (and we hope you never do), they may be described as miasmas , miasmata , or miasms .
Not a whit, fair sir—a cordial cup of sack, impregnated with wormwood is the best anti-pestilential draught; and, to speak the truth, the pestilential miasmata are now very rife in the atmosphere. —Anon., Mary of Scotland, or The Heir of Avenel , 1821
Definition : either end of a transportation line or travel route
Given that the above two words are obscure variant plurals of a somewhat obscure singular form ( terminus ), it is quite unlikely that you will have need of distinguishing between them. But seeing as how the joy of unexpected knowledge is not regulated by need, we have included them anyway. You may use either terminuses or termini (but not terminusses ) with ferocious and joyful impunity.
Home from a world of late-liberal distraction To rain and tenfoots clogged with leaves, To the life's work of boredom and waiting, The bus-station's just-closing teabar, The icy, unpromising platforms of regional termini…. —Sean O’Brien, After Laforgue (from HMS Glasshouse), 1991
Definition : an informal record: also, a written reminder
Many usage guides have taken pains to warn their readers of a potential problem with the plural of memorandum . This is not whether or not to use memorandums or memoranda (either is fine), but rather to avoid using memorandas . Some words with similar Latinate endings in English will allow an a ending to take an s (such as agendas ), but memorandas is not among them.
But what does our proud Ign'rance Learning call, We odly Plato 's Paradox make good, Our Knowledge is but mere Remembrance all, Remembrance is our Treasure and our Food; Nature's fair Table-book our tender Souls We scrawl all o'er with old and empty Rules, Stale Memorandums of the Schools…. —Jonathan Swift, Ode to the Honorable Sir William Temple , c1689
Definition : one who excels in the technique of an art
Both virtuosos and virtuosi may be found as the plural form of virtuouso , although the former is more common than the latter. Virtuosi is also viewed by a number of usage guides as being overly pedantic, and many will recommend virtuosos instead. So if your desideratum (which is only pluralized as desiderata ) is to use the sort of words that usage guides think of as overly pedantic, well, then virtuosi is the word for you.
Those virtuosi who expend their amiable propensities in transfixing butterflies and impaling gnats would here find ample employment from May till November. —Caroline M. Kirkland, Forest Life , 1850
Definition : supplementary material usually attached at the end of a piece of writing
Some people are of the opinion that when giving the plural of appendix one form is appropriate for certain contexts and not for others (stating, for instance, that appendices should be when referring to texts, and appendixes for non-textual things). We have a considerable body of written evidence indicating that these plurals are used interchangeably, so decide which one you are more comfortable with, and use it at will.
Modest Attire, and Meekness, signify A Mind compos'd of Native Purity. Needs no Appendices so to set forth A Jewel of a more admired worth. —Mary Mollineux, Of Modesty (from Fruits of Retirement), 1702
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Plurals in sentences like “I like peas” and “I have many friends” are easy to understand and make, but there are complications when it comes to making more complex regular plural nouns, the many irregular plural nouns, and plurals of more complex nouns. This article describes the rules and patterns that can make the whole range of English plural nouns both more manageable and more learnable.
How to make regular plurals with -s and -es.
Most English words simply take -s to make the plural form, as in “cats” and “dogs”. This changes to -es after words which end with sounds which are similar to /s/ such as /z/, as in “buzzes”. This -es represents an “iz” sound, so it adds an extra vowel sound and therefore one extra syllable between the final consonant of the singular and the plural suffix. For example, the one-syllable word “witch” becomes the two-syllable plural “witches”, sounding like “wichiz”. In contrast, the one syllable word “hat” adds -s to become the one-syllable plural “hats”, without an extra syllable.
Examples of -es/ “iz” after different sounds which are similar to /s/ include:
As can be seen from the examples above, this is the same rule as adding -s to Present Simple verbs with the third person, as in “I brush” changing to “She brushes”. The reason for both kinds of spelling and pronunciation change can most clearly be seen with singular nouns ending in -s. For example, as “a miss” obviously can’t be spelt or pronounced as “a misss” X.
The slight exception to adding “-es” after sounds similar to /s/ is with words which are spelt with a final E, where another E is obviously not needed (“a nurse” changing to “some nurses”, not “some nursees” X).
The other rule for making regular plurals is that most final -y words change the spelling to -ies, as in:
The exception is when -y forms part of a combination with another vowel, as in -ay and -oy, in which case the -y stays, for example in:
In both cases, the number of syllables stays the same as the singular (the same as -s and in contrast to -es above) and the rules are the same as third person S verbs (“He tries”, “He plays”, etc).
We use the term “irregular plurals” to mean that nouns like “children” and “knives” don’t follow regular rules like those in the sections above. Though they don’t follow the rules, there are some common patterns to how irregular plurals are formed, including:
There are also some which don’t follow any common pattern like “people”.
Some Latin words are used in English with both a traditional Latin plural (“syllabi”, “indices”, etc) and a regular English plural (“syllabuses”, “indexes”, etc). However, others always take the Latin plural (“some crises”, not “some crisises” X). Latin plurals that are often used in English include:
Foreign words which have become ways to talk about common things in English-speaking countries tend to take English plurals, as in “cappuccinos” and “pyjamas”. In contrast, words which are only used to talk about things in their country of origin tend to stay the same in the plural, like “some samurai”. Some are more variable, such as “some ninja” or “some ninjas”.
French words in English are similar to the Latin plurals above. There is some use of French plural spelling and/ or pronunciation, like “a gateau” and “some gateaux” (with “some gateaus” being very rare and considered wrong). However, “bureaux” is much rarer in English than “bureaus”.
Final -s in singular French words usually stays the same when changing to the plural, but English speakers sometimes pronounce the -s only in the plural (“a rendezvous” with a silent -s but “two rendezvous” with a pronounced -s).
In contrast to French and Latin, Italian plurals are rarely used in English. English speakers more often adding -s to the singular (“cellos”) or only using the form which is plural in Italian (often as an uncountable noun like “graffiti” and “spaghetti”).
Most compound nouns simply take the plural ending above on the last word (“signposts”, “postmen”, etc). However, there are exceptions like:
The general pattern is that the main, most important word takes -s.
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I have a love/hate relationship with the English language. I love writing and communicating ideas to fellow readers. I (sometimes) hate all the weird rules.
Take plurals, for instance. English has many strange plural words that defy rules or make their own. In this article, we'll cover several tricky plurals (such as "moose" and "moose") and do our best to explain how they work. I hope it drives your love/hate relationship more toward the former!
You probably don't need our help with these. For most words, simply add an "s" to the end of the singular form to make a plural. For instance:
Singular: paper / Plural: paper s
Singular: cat / Plural: cat s
Singular: tree / Plural: tree s
Easy enough. Things get slightly complicated when the word already ends with an "s," or with a "ch," "sh," "x," or "z." In this case, it's often correct to add "es" instead:
Singular: grass / Plural: grass es
Singular: bench / Plural: bench es
Singular: radish / Plural: radish es
What about words like "memory"? To pluralize a word ending in a consonant and the letter "y," replace the "y" with "ies":
Singular: memory / Plural: memor ies
Singular: baby / Plural: bab ies
Singular: glory / Plural: glor ies
Now let's advance to the truly tricky stuff.
As the name implies, irregular plurals don't follow the rules of their regular counterparts. The best way to learn these is to memorize them. Here are a few examples:
One might think calfs is the right word, but it's actually cal ves . There are a few others with a similar construction, including leaf and lea ves , knife and kni ves , and life and li ves .
Hoof and hoofs (or hooves).
Some irregular plurals are actually acceptable in multiple forms, as in the case of the word hoof . The logical plural hoof s actually works here. Yet using hoo ves is also valid. As the writer, it's your choice which you use, so long as you're consistent.
Just don't get tripped up with words that sound similar. For example, hooves is an acceptable plural of hoof . However, prooves is not the plural of proof . The correct plural is proof s . It's just one of those things you have to remember (though ProWritingAid's homonym report can help).
This is certainly one of the stranger ones on this list. The preferred plural of person is not persons . It's people .
However, you've probably heard the word persons used before, such as in the phrase "Missing Persons Case." That's because persons is a formal version of the plural and therefore used almost exclusively in legal settings. So unless you're a law enforcement official, you should opt for people .
What about peoples ? In the words of Jane Mairs , Director of English Language Learning Publishing, "the only time you will want to use the word 'peoples' is when you are referring to groups of people from multiple ethnic, cultural, racial, or national backgrounds." For example:
"The American people." (We use people because we're referring only to Americans.)
"The American, Chinese, Mexican, and English peoples." (We use peoples because we're referring to many folks from many countries.)
There are a few tricky holdovers from these languages that have remained in English. A few examples:
There's no such word as stimuluses (even though that would make logical sense). According to our Ancient Greek friends, the proper plural is stimuli .
Again, you'd probably guess that the plural form of genus would be genuses . However, it's actually genera . Fortunately, if you're not a scientist, this probably won't be a concern too often.
This one came up when I revisited my alma mater the other day. When asked for the reason for my visit, I said, "I'm an alumni." I feared I'd botched it and, sure enough, I had.
What I should've said was, "I'm an alumnus ." That's the singular form for male graduates. For female graduates, the generally accepted form is alumna . The plural form for both is alumni . So if my wife had been there as well, she would've said, "I'm an alumna," or, "We're alumni."
As if that wasn't tricky enough, there's also another plural form for a group of graduates who are all women. It's alumnae . So if my wife was with a female friend who graduated from the same school, she would've said, "We're alumnae."
So to reiterate: alumni can refer to a group of all-male graduates or a group of both men and women. Alumnae can refer only to a group of all-female graduates. If there's even one dude in there, you'd use alumni .
Many animals use the same word for both their singular and plural form. Thanks, animals! These are called invariants. For example, "I saw a moose " is correct, as is, "I saw several moose ." Mooses , meese , and moocices are not real words. Here are some others that fit this category:
Ox and oxen.
Logic rarely factors into English. Therefore, the plural of ox is not oxes . It's oxen ! You probably knew that one if you're a fan of the Oregon Trail computer games.
Since fox rhymes with ox , you might think the plural of fox would be foxen . It's not! The plural of fox is foxes . I made this error several times and felt silly for doing so.
There's a constant debate over the plural form of data . Is it datas ? Is datas even a word?
First of all, data is already a plural word; its singular companion is datum —or was. Unless you're in a technical field, that singular has been largely abandoned. Instead, most grammarians accept data as both a singular and plural form.
So what about the word datas ? It's mostly a matter of opinion. Though some use datas as a plural, others oppose the word. It seems most authorities agree that the preferred form for both singular and plural is data , and that it should be never used with the indefinite article ("a"). Easy to remember, since sentences like "I found a data I think you should see" just sound weird.
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Nouns used only in the singular.
Some nouns are used only in the singular, even though they end in -s . These include: the names of academic subjects such as classics, economics, mathematics/maths, physics ; the physical activities gymnastics and aerobics ; the diseases measles and mumps; and the word news :
Maths was never my best subject at school.
Aerobics is great fun – you should try it!
Some nouns only have a plural form. They cannot be used with numbers. They include the names of certain tools, instruments and articles of clothing which have two parts.
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I’ve got new sunglasses . Do you like them?
He always wears shorts , even in the winter.
We can use pair of to refer to one example of these nouns:
I bought a new pair of binoculars last week.
That old pair of trousers will be useful for doing jobs in the garden.
We use pairs of to refer to more than one example of this type of noun:
They’re advertising two pairs of glasses for the price of one.
I bought three pairs of shorts for the summer.
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Please ensure that you take all your belongings with you as you leave the aircraft.
They live on the outskirts of Frankfurt, almost in the countryside.
My clothes are wet. I’ll have to go upstairs and change.
She spent all her savings on a trip to South America.
Some nouns refer to groups of people (e.g. audience, committee, government, team ). These are sometimes called collective nouns. Some collective nouns can take a singular or plural verb, depending on whether they are considered as a single unit or as a collection of individuals:
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seen as a single unit | seen as individuals |
larger than average and the concert was a success. | all cheering wildly. |
hoping that online voting will attract more young people to vote. | all very nervous about the report, which will be published tomorrow. |
the world’s most famous football club. | looking forward to meeting Valencia in the final next week. |
In general, a plural verb is more common with these nouns in informal situations.
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In general, a noun is a person, place, or thing. A proper noun is a specialized name for a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized (e.g., “Crayola”). Nouns can be singular (i.e., only one) or plural (i.e., more than one).
To make a noun plural, add “s” (e.g., “dogs” is the plural form of “dog”), “es” (e.g., “boxes” is the plural form of “box”; add “es” to most nouns that end in “ch,” “s,” “sh,” “x,” and “z” to make them plural), and sometimes “ies” (e.g., “babies” is the plural form of “baby”; see the Notes section for exceptions to this grammar guideline ) to the end of the noun.
Irregular plural nouns , which include terms like “women,” “men,” “children,” “alumni,” “feet,” “mice,” “data,” and so forth, usually are not made plural by adding “s,” “es,” or “ies” to their endings. However, some irregular plural nouns have the same endings as regular plural nouns, such as “leaves,” “knives,” “analyses,” and “theses.”
Plural nouns are covered in the seventh edition APA Style manuals in the Publication Manual Sections 4.18 and 6.11 and the Concise Guide Sections 2.18 and 5.1
Usually, a surname is made plural by adding an “s” to the end of it (e.g., “Ayubis” is the plural form of the surname “Ayubi”), but there are exceptions. Add “es” to most surnames that end in “ch,” “s,” “sh,” “x,” and “z” to make them plural: for example, “Burch” becomes “Burches,” “Jones” becomes “Joneses,” “Nash” becomes “Nashes,” “Knox” becomes “Knoxes,” and “Hernández” becomes “Hernándezes.”
However, if the “ch” at the end of a surname is pronounced with a hard “k,” like “Bach,” add “s” to the end of the surname to make it plural: “Bachs” (the same is true for common nouns ending in a hard “ch”: “stomachs”). Likewise, if the “x” at the end of a surname is silent, like “Rioux,” make the surname plural by adding an “s” to the end of the name: “Riouxs.”
Although there are many unique ways to form plural nouns, please note that placing an apostrophe “s” or just an apostrophe after an “s” at the end of a noun is not one of them. “Tuesday’s” and “cat’s” are never the plurals of “Tuesday” and “cat”; the plurals are “Tuesdays” and “cats.” In general, an apostrophe “s” is used to form the possessive case of a noun .
Some nouns are spelled the same way in their singular form as they are in their plural form (e.g., “fish,” “moose,” “sheep”). Other nouns do not have a singular form and are always spelled in the plural form (e.g., “clothes,” “eyeglasses,” “scissors”). Conversely, some nouns do not have a plural form (e.g., “homework,” “milk,” “advice”).
Also, to make an abbreviation plural, add an “s” to the end of the abbreviation. For example, “HCP” is the abbreviation of “health care provider” and “HCPs” is its plural form.
The spelling guidelines on this page serve as general pluralization recommendations and are not comprehensive. They are not specific to APA Style and can be found in many dictionaries and other style guides. The APA Style Experts frequently consult the Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary for their spelling guidance .
Some common examples of nouns in their singular and plural forms are presented next.
Alex | Alexes |
attorney | attorneys |
branch | branches |
bus | buses |
case | cases |
Choi | Chois |
class | classes |
deer | deer |
Dietrich | Dietrichs |
digital object identifier (DOI) | DOIs |
family | families |
fox | foxes |
Goodrich | Goodriches |
half | halves |
hypothesis | hypotheses |
influencer | influencers |
Lacroix | Lacroixs |
life | lives |
Lopez | Lopezes |
monarch | monarchs |
patient | patients |
person | people |
phenomenon | phenomena |
screenshot | screenshots |
Smith | Smiths |
theory | theories |
tomato | tomatoes |
tooth | teeth |
Walsh | Walshes |
waltz | waltzes |
Williams | Williamses |
wish | wishes |
a “Attornies” is not the plural form of “attorney” because the letter that precedes the “y” is a vowel (i.e., an “e”) and not a consonant . In general, do not change nouns that end in “y” to “ies” to make them plural if the letter that precedes the “y” is a vowel; add an “s” to the end of the noun to make it plural.
b “Families” ends in “ies” because the letter that precedes the “y” in “family” is a consonant (i.e., an “l”). However, there are exceptions to this guidance. For example, “moneys” and “monies” are acceptable plural forms of “money.” When a term has more than one plural form, use your best judgment to determine which spelling is more appropriate to use in your work.
c The term “persons” is sometimes used in research settings to refer to groups of a specific number and in a legal context such as “missing persons” or “persons of interest.” Nevertheless, “people” is the preferred plural form of “person.”
d “Peoples” may be used to describe specific ethnic communities such as “Indigenous Peoples” or “First Peoples.”
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This graph shows how "essay" have occurred between 1800 and 2008 in a corpus of English books. What is the plural form of essay? The plural of the "essay" can be the " essays ".
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The meaning of ESSAY is an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view. How to use essay in a sentence. ... Plural and Possessive Names: A Guide. 31 Useful Rhetorical Devices. More Commonly Misspelled Words. Why does English have so many silent letters?
Now, let's learn the reasons why "Essays" is the right spelling. Firstly, "Essays" is the plural form of the singular noun "Essay." When we want to refer to more than one essay, we simply add an "s" to the end of the word. This is the conventional English rule for forming plurals of nouns, and it applies to "Essay" as well.
Here's a quick summary of the main rules and exceptions for spelling plurals: Add - s to most singular nouns to make them plural. Add - es to words ending in - s, - x, - z, - ch, or - sh. For words ending in - y, change the - y to - ies if it's preceded by a consonant.
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A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea. This is true for both singular and plural nouns. A singular noun is a noun representing a single (just one) person, place, thing, or idea. For example, the nouns drink, berry, and child are singular nouns. Often, the determiners a or an are used with singular nouns:
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What Are Plural Nouns? Rules and Examples
How to make regular plurals with -s and -es. Most English words simply take -s to make the plural form, as in "cats" and "dogs". This changes to -es after words which end with sounds which are similar to /s/ such as /z/, as in "buzzes". This -es represents an "iz" sound, so it adds an extra vowel sound and therefore one extra ...
essay in American English. (noun for 1, 2 ˈesei, for 3-5 ˈesei, eˈsei, verb eˈsei) noun. 1. a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition. a picture essay.
Regular Plurals. You probably don't need our help with these. For most words, simply add an "s" to the end of the singular form to make a plural. For instance: Singular: paper / Plural: papers. Singular: cat / Plural: cats. Singular: tree / Plural: trees. Easy enough.
Nouns: singular and plural - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary
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