plupart

Meaning

1. main part, majority
2. most of

Concepts

majority

mostly

almost

legal age

part

most of

most

ascendence

ascendency

suzerainty

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ply.paʁ/

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French pluspart (“the greater/greatest part of something”). By surface analysis, plus + part. Probably calqued from a Germanic phrase related to Old English māra dǣl (“majority”, literally “the greater part”), Dutch meerdeel, German Mehrteil.

Sentences

La plupart ont simplement été ferraillés .

Most have simply been scrapped.

La plupart des ingestions n'ont pas ou peu d'effets.

Most ingestions have little or no effect.

Guy de Saint-Cyr a exploré la plupart des volcans en éruption de la planète .

Guy de Saint-Cyr has explored most of the planet's erupting volcanoes.

C'est vraisemblablement dans cette maison qu'il grave la plupart des cuivres de cette série .

It is probably in this house that he engraves most of the horns in this series.

Bien qu'Inchmickery soit aujourd'hui inhabitée , la plupart de ses bâtiments de béton demeurent intacts .

Although Inchmickery is now uninhabited, most of its concrete buildings remain intact.