deal – English noun declension

English noun forms of deal

Noun: deal
Singulardeal
Pluraldeals

Sample Sentences

  • We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
  • There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency. [1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 35:]
  • There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
  • “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.” [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!:]
  • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth. [2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:]

Etymology

From Middle English del, dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-West Germanic *daili, from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰ(h₁)-oy-lo- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish, Slovene, and Swedish del (“part”), Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (dails, “portion”). Related to Old English dāl (“portion”). More at dole. See: Middle English Nouns 'del', Dutch Nouns 'deel', German Nouns 'Teil', Icelandic Nouns 'deila', Gothic Nouns '𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "deal"

French Nouns deal, German Nouns Deal, German Nouns Teil, Icelandic Nouns díll, Finnish Nouns diili.