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plenty

noun
/ˈplɛnti/UK/ˈplɛnti/US/ˈplɪɾ̃i/

Etymology

From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.

  1. derived from *pl̥h₁nós✻
  2. derived from plenitatem
  3. derived from plenté
  4. derived from plenté
  5. inherited from plentie

Definitions

  1. A more-than-adequate amount

    A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.

    • We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

  2. More than enough.

    • Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.

  3. More than sufficiently.

    • This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
    • For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Used as an intensifier, very.

      • She was plenty mad at him.
      • Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.

    2. much, enough

      • There'll be plenty time later for that

    3. many

      • Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

    4. Plentiful.

      • if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
      • Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]

    5. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

    6. A town in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

    7. A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, Victoria, Australia

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plenty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plenty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at plenty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA