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plenty
English
Etymology
From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/, [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
- Rhymes: -?nti
- Homophone: Pliny (pin-pen merger, silent 't')
Noun
plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)
- A more-than-adequate amount.
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
- 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population:
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun, or as both a noun and a pronoun.
Synonyms
- abundance
- profusion
Derived terms
Translations
Pronoun
plenty
- More than enough.
- I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun.
Adverb
plenty (not comparable)
- More than sufficiently.
- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
- She was plenty mad at him.
Translations
Determiner
plenty
- (nonstandard) much, enough
- There'll be plenty time later for that
- (nonstandard) many
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
Adjective
plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)
- (obsolete) plentiful
- 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
- There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.
- 1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:
- Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]
- 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
Translations
Related terms
- plenitude
- plentitude
References
Anagrams
- pentyl
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fulth
English
Alternative forms
- fouth
Etymology
From Middle English fulth, fulthe, from Old English fylleþ (“fullness”, in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *fulliþ? (“fullness”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel?-, *pl?- (“to fill”); equivalent to full +? -th. Cognate with Middle High German vüllede (“fullness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?l?/
Noun
fulth (uncountable)
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fullness; abundance; plenty.
- 1910, Thomas Hardy, "A Singer Asleep".
- 1911, John Payne (tr.), The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine: Now First Completely Rendered Into English Verse, in Accordance with the Original Forms, Volume 3, page 134.
- 1952, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Summer Bulletin, page 18.
- 1910, Thomas Hardy, "A Singer Asleep".
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fill; sufficiency; repletion; satiety.
- 1641, Henry Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, publ. by George Andrews, 1857, pages 4 & 5.
- 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 62.
- 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 73.
- 1924, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, page 41.
- 1641, Henry Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, publ. by George Andrews, 1857, pages 4 & 5.
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