3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl {Plenties}, in --Shak. [OE. plentee
plente, OF plent['e], fr L. plenitas, fr plenus full. See
{Full}, a., and cf {Complete}.]
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;
specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample
supply for human wants abundance; copiousness. ``Plenty of
corn and wine.'' --Gen. xxvii. 28. ``Promises Britain peace
and plenty.'' --Shak.
Houses of office stuffed with plentee --Chaucer.
The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the
world. --Thomson.
Syn: Abundance; exuberance. See {Abundance}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plenty \Plen"ty\, a.
Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. --Shak.
(Folio ed.)
Those countries where shrubs are plenty. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plenty
n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn:
{plentifulness}, {plenteousness}, {plenitude}, {plentitude}]
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal},
{flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot},
{mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile},
{pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
{stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
adv : as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is
nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: {enough}]
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