plenty

plenty
n
1. quantity, quantities, volume, mass, fund, mine, store; multitude, number, numbers, scores, host, hoard, legion; sea, ocean, oceans, world, worlds, galaxy, great quantity or quantities; lot, lots, heap, heaps, mountain, mountains, stack, stacks, pile, piles, load, loads, mess, slew, slews, whole slew, full supply, full measure, good supply, good or great deal, quite a little, Sl. scads or scad, U.S. Sl. boodle; A11 Inf. ton, tons, bag, bags, barrel, barrels, gob, gobs, oodles, Chiefly Brit. lashings or lashing.
2. plenteousness, plentifulness, bountifulness, boun-teousness, copiousness; amplitude, ampleness, fullness; numerousness; richness, exuberance, luxuriance, luxuriousness, lavishness, lavishment; teemingness, rankness, prodigality.
3. abundance, profusion, plenitude, bounty, cornucopia, horn of plenty, endless supply.
4. excess, surplus, surfeit, satiety, oversupply, overflow, nimiety, superfluity; glut, plethora, flood, deluge, overabundance, superabundance, supersatura-tion; riot, landslide, bonanza.
5. affluence, wealth, wealthiness, prosperity, pros-perousness; opulence, opulency, comfort; money, riches, fortune, treasure; means, resources, wherewithal.

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  • plenty — is essentially a noun, and is used either by itself or with of + following noun (plural, or singular mass noun): We have plenty / You will find plenty of books / There is plenty of time. Use of plenty as an adjective without of is found in… …   Modern English usage

  • Plenty — may refer to:*Plenty (play), a play by David Hare *Plenty (film), a 1985 film directed by Fred Schepisi *Plenty (magazine), an environmental culture magazine *Plenty O Toole, a Bond girl in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever *Plenty… …   Wikipedia

  • Plenty — ist Ortsname von: Plenty (Victoria), Australien Plenty (Tasmanien), Australien Bay of Plenty, Neuseeland Plenty steht für: Plenty (Zeitschrift) Plenty ist: der englische Originaltitel des Films Eine demanzipierte Frau Siehe auch Plenty River …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Plenty — 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plenty — [plen′tē] n. pl. plenties [ME plente < MFr plenté < L plenitas < plenus, FULL1] 1. prosperity; opulence 2. a plentiful or abundant supply; enough or more than enough 3. a large number; multitude [plenty of errors] adj …   English World dictionary

  • Plenty — Plen ty, a. Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster] If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) [1913 Webster] Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Plenty — Plenty, Bai an der Ostküste der Neuseelandinsel Eaheinomauwe (Polynesien) …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • plenty — index overage, plethora, prosperity, quantity, quorum, store (depository), sufficiency, surfeit …   Law dictionary

  • plenty — (n.) early 13c., from O.Fr. plentet (12c., Mod.Fr. dial. plenté), from L. plenitatem (nom. plenitas) fullness, from plenus complete, full (see PLENARY (Cf. plenary)). The colloquial adverb meaning very much is first attested 1842 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Plenty —    Mélodrame de Fred Schepisi, d après la pièce de David Hare, avec Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance.   Pays: États Unis   Date de sortie: 1985   Technique: couleurs   Durée: 1 h 50    Résumé    Une Anglaise traverse les vicissitudes de l… …   Dictionnaire mondial des Films

  • plenty — ► PRONOUN ▪ a large or sufficient amount or quantity. ► NOUN ▪ a situation in which food and other necessities are available in sufficiently large quantities. ► ADVERB informal ▪ fully; sufficiently. ORIGIN Old French plente, from Latin plenus… …   English terms dictionary

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