Noun: singular
| Singular | singular |
| Plural | singulars |
Sample Sentences
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He rode as it were mechanically forward with his late counsellors, Diego and Gonsalez, at his side; and though, when "a singular of boars" was hunted out from his covert by the fierce Alauntes, the king followed up the chase, and even threw a spear at the bristled animal, yet it was with little spirit, and so ill aimed that the spear struck, and broke short, against an ancient oak tree of the forest. [1884, Anna Eliza Bray, The Talba, or Moor of Portugal, volume 3, page 238:]
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The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulls of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves - all came to him more or less as something which you either skinned or flayed and then took home to cook. [1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King:]
Nouns inflected like singular
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris (“alone of its kind”), from Latin singulus (“single”). See: Middle English Nouns '
singuler', Latin Nouns '
singulāris', Latin Nouns '
singulus'.