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plenty

/ˈplɛnti/ noun

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Latin root: plēnitātem Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about plenty at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
    We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

pronoun

  1. More than enough.
    Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.

adverb

  1. More than sufficiently.
    This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
  2. Used as an intensifier, very.
    She was plenty mad at him.

determiner

  1. much, enough
    There'll be plenty time later for that

Origin

From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“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 replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.

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