Noun: equal
| Singular | equal |
| Plural | equals |
Sample Sentences
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We're all equals here.
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This beer has no equal.
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Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. [1712 January 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
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The two who have no equals become friends without equal. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 192:]
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They had hoped their son, a stockbroker, would marry a financial equal, but Suzette, a teacher, did not come from money. [2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 150:]
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Thou that presum'st to weigh the world anew,
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And all things to an equall to restore. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like equal
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 equal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of aequalis and egal. See: Middle English Nouns '
equal', Latin Nouns '
aequālis'.
Verbs referencing "equal"
Spanish Nouns
igual.