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English Dictionary: plenty	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for plenty
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plenty adv as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" Synonym(s): enough, plenty n a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" Synonym(s): plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): 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
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl. {Plenties}, in --Shak. [OE. plentee, plente, OF. plent[82], 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. [bd]Plenty of corn and wine.[b8] --Gen. xxvii. 28. [bd]Promises Britain peace and plenty.[b8] --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}.