Definite and Plural

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Definite adjective - Having distinct or certain limits.

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Plural and definite are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plural" instead an adjective "Definite".

Plural adjective - Grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units.

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Definite and plural are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Definite" instead an adjective "Plural".

In French, definite article + plural noun conveys the meaning "all the X", similar to English speaking about, say, "the French" or "the Jews".

Source: My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The bad guy biker gang from Wild Hogs are called the Del Fuegos, literally "Of the Fires" or "Of the Flames." (The number is wrong, though; "fuegos" is plural, and so should be the definite article, so the right Spanish would be "De Los Fuegos").

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And if you really wanted to stretch it, a karat - the unit to describe gold purity, is the definite plural of the same thing, albeit with a different pronunciation (Albanians stress the a as in "father").

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