Definición de "plenty"
1. cuantificador
If there is plenty of something, there is a large amount of it. If there are plenty of things, there are many of them. Plenty is used especially to indicate that there is enough of something, or more than you need.
Plenty is also a pronoun.
2. sustantivo incontable
[formal]
3. adverbio [ADVERB adjective/adverb]
You use plenty in front of adjectives or adverbs to emphasize the degree of the quality they are describing.
[informal, emphasis]
4.
See in plenty
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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
plenty in British English
sustantivoFormas de la palabra: plural -ties
1. (often foll by of)
plenty of time
there are plenty of cars on display here
3. See in plenty
determinante
4.
a.
very many; ample
plenty of people believe in ghosts
adverbio
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Origen de la palabra plenty
C13: from Old French plenté, from Late Latin plēnitās fullness, from Latin plēnus full
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
Plenty in British English
sustantivo
See Bay of Plenty
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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
plenty in American English
adjetivo
4. Informal
plentiful; enough; ample
plenty time before lunch
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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
plenty in American English
(ˈplenti) (noun plural -ties)
sustantivo
adjetivo
adverbio
SYNONYMS 2. plenteousness, copiousness, luxuriance, affluence. plenty, abundance, profusion refer to a large quantity or supply. plenty suggests a supply that is fully adequate to any demands: plenty of money. abundance implies a great plenty, an ample and generous oversupply: an abundance of rain. profusion applies to such a lavish and excessive abundance as often suggests extravagance or
prodigality: luxuries in great profusion. USAGE The construction plenty of is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of plenty preceding a noun, without an intervening of, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed. It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in
the mid-19th century, plenty is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech6. informal
fully; quite
plenty good enough
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Inglés británico: plenty
/ˈplɛntɪ/ NOUN
If there is plenty of something, there is a lot of it.
Don't worry. There's still plenty of time.
- Inglés americano: plenty /ˈplɛnti/
- Árabe: كَثِير
- Portugués brasileño: abundância
- Chino: 丰富
- Croata: obilje
- Checo: spousta
- Danés: overflod
- Holandés: veel
- Español europeo: abundancia
- Finlandés: runsaus
- Francés: abondance
- Alemán: Menge
- Griego: αφθονία
- Italiano: abbondanza
- Japonés: たっぷり
- Coreano: 충분
- Noruego: overflod
- Polaco: obfitość
- Portugués: bastante
- Rumano: abundență
- Ruso: множество
- Español: abundancia
- Sueco: överflöd
- Tailandés: จำนวนมากมาย
- Turco: çok
- Ucraniano: безліч
- Vietnamita: nhiều
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