galore

adj.
In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs . . . and fireworks galore" (Anne Armstrong).

[Irish Gaelic go leór, enough : go, adv. particle + leór, enough (from Old Irish lour , alteration of roar).]

(guh-LOAR)
adjective, adverb
In abundance.

Etymology
From Irish go leor (enough)

Usage
"There are bargains galore in this district near Aberdeen." — Rose Pearson; Hong Kong Still a Retail Heaven; New Zealand Herald (Auckland); May 14, 2006.

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adj

Definition: aplenty
Antonyms: in short supply

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from Irish
This word originated in Ireland

There is Irish galore in the English language, thanks to the persistence of the Irish language in Ireland despite centuries of English rule. Among the finest of the Irish immigrants to our vocabulary is galore, which appears in English writing as early as 1675. It comes from the Irish phrase go leór, go translating as "to" and leór as "sufficiency"; so the phrase translates roughly as "sufficient" or "enough." That was enough for English speakers to make much more of it; we have an abundance when we have something galore. We keep the exotic flavor of galore by using it only after the noun it modifies, contrary to our practice with most other adjectives.

The Irish word was helped in popularity by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who knew it from Scottish usage too, since Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are closely related. And we have uses galore for the word today. Who doesn't remember the actress Honor Blackman in the 1964 movie Goldfinger? When James Bond (Sean Connery) first meets her, she says, "I'm Pussy Galore"; to which Bond replies, "I must be dreaming." Or consider the Tennessee State Poem "O Tennessee, My Tennessee" by Adm. William Lawrence, who wrote it while a prisoner of war in Vietnam:

Like Scots Gaelic and Welsh, Irish is from the Celtic branch of Indo-European. Long disfavored by the ruling English, Irish is now an official language of the independent Irish Republic and is taught in Irish schools, but it is spoken natively by only about 120,000 of the population of three and a half million.

Irish has given us such notable English words as hubub (1555), smithereens (1829), slob (1861), (hockey) puck (1891), hooligan (1898), and phony (1900), as well as Irish-flavored words like shamrock (1577), leprechaun (1604), brogue (1705), shebeen (an illegal drinking place, 1787), colleen (1828), brogan (1835), donnybrook (1852), and kelly green (1935). Irish and Scottish have combined to give to the English language bard (1450), bog (1505), whiskey (1715), and banshee (1771).

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - i massevis

Nederlands (Dutch)
in overvloed

Français (French)
adj. - à profusion, à volonté

Deutsch (German)
adj. - im Überfluß, in Hülle und Fülle

Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - με/σε αφθονία, μπόλικα, με το τσουβάλι

Italiano (Italian)
in abbondanza, a profusione

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - em abundância (f), em grandes números (m)

Русский (Russian)
в изобилии

Español (Spanish)
adj. - en abundancia, en cantidad

Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - i massor

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大量的, 丰富的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 大量的, 豐富的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 많이

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - たくさんの
adv. - たくさんに, 豊富に

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ظرف) بوفرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮הרבה, בשפע‬

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