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plethora

noun
/ˈplɛθəɹə/UK/ˈplɛθəɹə/CA/ˈpleθəɹə/

Etymology

From Late Latin plēthōra, from Ancient Greek πληθώρη (plēthṓrē, “fullness, satiety”), from πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be full”) + -η (-ē, nominal suffix).

  1. derived from πληθώρη
  2. borrowed from plēthōra

Definitions

  1. An excessive amount or number

    An excessive amount or number; an abundance.

    • The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
    • 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
    • I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.

  2. Excess of blood in the skin, especially in the face and especially chronically.

    • [Y]our Character at Present is like a Person in a Plethora, absolutely dying of too much Health—
    • The food necessary for the maintenance of his dog, a bull-terrier, in the condition of ferocious plethora to which it was accustomed, he generously declared himself willing to pay for out of his own pocket, […]

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Derived

plethoral

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for plethora. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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