Definition of 'plenty'
1. quantifier
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. uncountable noun
[formal]
3. adverb [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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plenty in British English
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. (often foll by of)
plenty of time
there are plenty of cars on display here
3. See in plenty
determiner
4.
a.
very many; ample
plenty of people believe in ghosts
adverb
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Word origin
C13: from Old French plenté, from Late Latin plēnitās fullness, from Latin plēnus full
Word Frequency
Plenty in British English
noun
See Bay of Plenty
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plenty in American English
adjective
4. Informal
plentiful; enough; ample
plenty time before lunch
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plenty in American English
(ˈplenti) (noun plural -ties)
noun
adjective
adverb
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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British English: plenty
/ˈplɛntɪ/ NOUN
If there is plenty of something, there is a lot of it.
Don't worry. There's still plenty of time.
- American English: plenty /ˈplɛnti/
- Arabic: كَثِير
- Brazilian Portuguese: abundância
- Chinese: 丰富
- Croatian: obilje
- Czech: spousta
- Danish: overflod
- Dutch: veel
- European Spanish: abundancia
- Finnish: runsaus
- French: abondance
- German: Menge
- Greek: αφθονία
- Italian: abbondanza
- Japanese: たっぷり
- Korean: 충분
- Norwegian: overflod
- Polish: obfitość
- European Portuguese: bastante
- Romanian: abundență
- Russian: множество
- Latin American Spanish: abundancia
- Swedish: överflöd
- Thai: จำนวนมากมาย
- Turkish: çok
- Ukrainian: безліч
- Vietnamese: nhiều
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