Sundry Definition

sŭndrē

adjective

Various; miscellaneous; divers.

Sundry items of clothing.

Webster's New World

Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.

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pronoun

Sundry persons or things.

Webster's New World

noun

(usually in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.

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(in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.

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(usually in the plural, cricket, chiefly Australia) An extra.

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Other Word Forms of Sundry

Singular:

sundry

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From Middle English sundry, sondry, sindry, from Old English syndriÄ¡ (“separate, single; sundry, various, distinct; special, private, peculiar, exceptional, particular; characteristic; (distributive) one each"), from sundor (“asunder, apart, separately"), equivalent to sunder +"Ž -y. Cognate with Low German sunderig (“single, special"), Middle High German sunderig (“separate, special, private"), Swedish söndrig (“broken, tattered").

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Middle English sundri from Old English syndrig separate

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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