plenty
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PLENTYCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-#PLENTYFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PLENTYCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PLENTY plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#PLENTY plenté, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PLENTY plenté, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PLENTY plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PLENTY *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈplɛnti/Category:English 2-syllable words#PLENTYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLENTY
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈplɛnti/, [ˈplɛɾ̃i], [ˈplɛni]Category:English 2-syllable words#PLENTYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLENTY
- (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping) IPA(key): [ˈplɪɾ̃i], [ˈplɪni]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLENTY
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PLENTYAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntiCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnti#PLENTYCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnti/2 syllables#PLENTY
- Homophone: Pliny (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)Category:English terms with homophones#PLENTY
Noun
plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)Category:English lemmas#PLENTYCategory:English nouns#PLENTYCategory:English uncountable nouns#PLENTYCategory:English countable nouns#PLENTYCategory:English countable nouns#PLENTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY
- A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.Category:English terms with usage examples#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 tillageCategory:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun,[1][2] others analyse it as a pronoun,[3] or as both a noun and a pronoun.[4][5][6]
Synonyms
Derived terms
- aplenty
- Bay of Plenty
- horn of plenty
- in plenty
- land of plenty
- Lower Plenty
- plenteous
- plentiful
- plentily
- plentiness
- plenty as blackberries
- plenty to go around
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there are plenty more pebbles on the beach
- there are plenty of fish in the sea
- there are plenty of pebbles on the beach
Translations
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Pronoun
plentyCategory:English lemmas#PLENTYCategory:English pronouns#PLENTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY
- More than enough.
- Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLENTY
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun.
Adverb
plenty (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PLENTYCategory:English adverbs#PLENTYCategory:English uncomparable adverbs#PLENTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY (Canada, USCategory:Canadian English#PLENTYCategory:American English#PLENTY)
- More than sufficiently.
- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLENTY
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
- For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.Category:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#PLENTY) Used as an intensifier, very.
- She was plenty mad at him.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLENTY
- 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 7 December 2017:
- Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.Category:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
Descendants
Translations
Determiner
plentyCategory:English lemmas#PLENTYCategory:English determiners#PLENTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#PLENTY, nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#PLENTY)
- much, enough
- There'll be plenty time later for thatCategory:English terms with usage examples#PLENTY
- many
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLENTY
Adjective
plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)Category:English lemmas#PLENTYCategory:English adjectives#PLENTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PLENTY) Plentiful.
- 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
- if reasons were as plenty as blackberriesCategory:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
- 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; […]Category:English terms with quotations#PLENTY
Synonyms
Translations
Related terms
References
- ↑ “plenty”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ “plenty”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ Macmillan
- ↑ “oxforddictionaries.com”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 28 February 2014 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 May 2014
- ↑ Harrap's essential English Dictionary (1996)
- ↑ Heinemann English Dictionary (2001)
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
plentyCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#PLENTYCategory:Czech noun forms#PLENTYCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#PLENTYCategory:Pages with entries#PLENTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PLENTY