plenty
pronunciation
How to pronounce plenty in British English:
UK [ˈplenti]
How to pronounce plenty in American English:
US [ˈplenti]
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- Noun:
- a full supply
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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- Adverb:
- as much as necessary
Word Origin
- plenty
- plenty: [13] Plenty is one of a family of English words that trace their history back to Latin plēnus ‘full’ (a descendant of the same Indo- European base, *plē-, as produced English full and plethora). Others include plenary [16], plenipotentiary [17], plenitude [15], plenteous [13], and replenish. Plenty itself comes via Old French plentet from the Latin derivative plenitās. Other close relatives contributed by Latin include plural, plus, and surplus and the range of words based on the verbal element -plēre ‘fill’ – complete, deplete, implement, replete, supply, etc.=> complete, deplete, full, implement, plethora, replete, supply
- plenty (n.)
- mid-13c., "as much as one could desire," from Old French plentee, earlier plentet "abundance, profusion" (12c., Modern French dialectal plenté), from Latin plenitatem (nominative plenitas) "fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary). Meaning "condition of general abundance" is from late 14c. The colloquial adverb meaning "very much" is first attested 1842. Middle English had parallel formation plenteth, from the older Old French form of the word.
Synonym
fullness plentifulness richness lavishness amplitude prodigality copiousness bounteousness luxuriance exuberance plenteousness luxuriousness bountifulness
Example
- 1. Europe is still very sick and there is plenty of data proving it .
- 2. There are plenty of ways to use the technology as it exists today in more and more creative ways .
- 3. This year , by contrast , there were still plenty of iphone 5cs in stock an hour later .
- 4. Today 's oil market also has plenty of buffers .
- 5. Foreign investors see plenty of opportunities .