English Explanatory Dictionary

plenty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.
pron
  1. More than enough.
adv
  1. More than sufficiently.
  2. Used as an intensifier, very.
det
  1. much, enough
  2. many
adj
  1. Plentiful.
name
  1. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  2. A town in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
  3. A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, Victoria, Australia

Pronunciation

/ˈplɛnti/ [ˈplɛɾ̃i] [ˈplɛni] [ˈplɪɾ̃i] [ˈplɪni] en-us-plenty.ogg

Word forms

plenty plenties more plenty most plenty

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.

Synonyms

abundance profusion plenteous

Related words

plenitude plentitude

Derived words

aplenty Bay of Plenty horn of plenty in plenty land of plenty Lower Plenty plenteous plentiful plentily plentiness plenty as blackberries plenty to go around there are plenty more fish in the sea there are plenty more pebbles on the beach there are plenty of fish in the sea there are plenty of pebbles on the beach
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