| en |
| 1. n. English | |
| The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends. | |
| 2. n. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use). | |
| 3. prep. Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below). | |
| plural |
| 1. adj. Consisting of or containing more than one of something. | |
| 2. adj. (comparable) Pluralistic. | |
| 3. n. (grammar) The plural number. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. | |
| noun |
| 1. n. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including Engli | |
| 2. n. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word | |
| 3. v. To convert a word to a noun. | |
