PLENTY Definition & Meaning

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plenty

[plen-tee]

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noun

plural

plenties

a full or abundant supply or amount.
There is plenty of time.
the state or quality of being plentiful; abundance.
resources in plenty.
Synonyms: , , ,
an abundance, as of goods or luxuries, or a time of such abundance.
the plenty of a rich harvest; the plenty that comes with peace.

adjective

existing in ample quantity or number; plentiful; abundant.
Food is never too plenty in the area.
more than sufficient; ample.
That helping is plenty for me.

adverb

Informal.��fully; quite.
plenty good enough.

plenty

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noun

(often foll by of) a great number, amount, or quantity; lots
plenty of time
there are plenty of cars on display here
generous or ample supplies of wealth, produce, or resources
the age of plenty
existing in abundance
food in plenty

determiner

1. very many; ample
  plenty of people believe in ghosts
2. ( as pronoun )
  there's plenty more
  that's plenty, thanks

adverb

not_standard��(intensifier)
he was plenty mad
informal��more than adequately; abundantly
the water's plenty hot enough

Plenty

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noun

a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand

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Usage

The construction plenty of is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of plenty preceding a noun, without an intervening of, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed. It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in the mid-19th century, plenty is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

overplenty noun

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of plenty¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English plente, from Old French; replacing Middle English plenteth, from Old French plented, plentet, from Latin ��ŧ�Ծ��- (stem of ��ŧ�Ծ�� ) “fullness.” See plenum, -ity

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of plenty¹

C13: from Old French ��Գ�é, from Late Latin ��ŧ�Ծ�� fullness, from Latin ��ŧ�Գܲ� full

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Idioms and Phrases

see under not the only fish in the sea.

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Synonym Study

Plenty, abundance, profusion refer to a large quantity or supply. Plenty suggests a supply that is fully adequate to any demands: plenty of money. Abundance implies a great plenty, an ample and generous oversupply: an abundance of rain. Profusion applies to such a lavish and excessive abundance as often suggests extravagance or prodigality: luxuries in great profusion.

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Example Sentences

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It still would have been better than his supposed deal with China on trade or the Houthi regime in Yemen on shipping, both of which amount to plenty of bluster followed by retreat.

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There have been plenty of other "strange ones" over the years, Jones says.

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With plenty of grass, trees, dirt and hints of scatological delights in the air, they were in dog paradise.

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Despite being far from home there's plenty of UK bands playing, such as Devon band Muse who are replacing headliners Kings of Leon, who had to drop out after an injury.

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And the US has plenty of time - just under a decade - to sort out their supply issues and provide them.

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