Meaning of PLENTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'plentee
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- [n] a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
- [n] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
- [adv] as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
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| | Synonyms: | | batch, deal, enough, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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| | See Also: | | abundance, copiousness, deluge, flood, inundation, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, teemingness, torrent | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Plen"ty\, n.; pl. {Plenties}, in --Shak. [OE. plentee,
plente, OF. plent['e], fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See
{Full}, a., and cf. {Complete}.]
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;
specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample
supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. ``Plenty of
corn and wine.'' --Gen. xxvii. 28. ``Promises Britain peace
and plenty.'' --Shak.
Houses of office stuffed with plentee. --Chaucer.
The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the
world. --Thomson.
Syn: Abundance; exuberance. See {Abundance}.
\Plen"ty\, a.
Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. --Shak.
(Folio ed.)
Those countries where shrubs are plenty. --Goldsmith.
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