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PLENTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A full supply
Example:
there was plenty of food for everyone
Synonyms:
plenitude; plenteousness; plentifulness; plentitude; plenty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("plenty" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Derivation:
plenteous (affording an abundant supply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
Example:
a wad of money
Synonyms:
batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("plenty" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plenty"):
deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)
haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)
Derivation:
plenteous (affording an abundant supply)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As much as necessary
Example:
I've had plenty, thanks
Synonyms:
enough; plenty
Classified under:
Context examples:
Besides drinking plenty of fluids and getting plenty of rest, you may want to take medicines.
(Cold and Cough Medicines, Food and Drug Administration)
There's plenty of string, said Mr. Dick, and when it flies high, it takes the facts a long way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Free play and plenty of room.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It is important to get plenty of calcium in the foods you eat.
(Calcium, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)
There came a day, in this land of plenty, when the wolf-pack split in half and went in different directions.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
All females in the study were adults by time of the 2009 drought, but those born in lean times fared worse in 2009 than those born in times of plenty, the researchers found.
(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)
I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
There are ten; is it not plenty?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And so the poor old horse had plenty to eat, and lived—till he died.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They will only get a roll if it does break down; and there is plenty of dirt; it will be excellent falling.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
