plenty

(plĕn'tē)
n.

1. A full or completely adequate amount or supply: plenty of time.
2. A large quantity or amount; an abundance: "Awards and honors came to her in plenty" (Joyce Carol Oates).
3. A condition of general abundance or prosperity: "fruitful regions gladdened by plenty and lulled by peace!" (Samuel Johnson).

adj.
Plentiful; abundant: "Ships were then not so plenty in those waters as now" (Herman Melville).

adv. Informal
Sufficiently; very: It's plenty hot.

[Middle English, from Old French plente, from Latin plēnitās, from plēnus, full.]

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is essentially a noun, and is used either by itself or with of + following noun (plural, or singular mass noun): We have plenty / You will find plenty of books / There is plenty of time. Use of plenty as an adjective without of is found in regional forms of English but is not standard:

Although there are plenty other ideals that I should prefer—Robert Louis Stevenson

Leopard Society in Sierra Leone. They kill plenty people—Graham Greene, 1969.

Use of plenty as an adverb meaning 'very, clearly, more than usually' is restricted to non-standard American English:

He seems plenty dead to me—R. Silverberg, 1985

I frowned at my mother plenty—New Yorker, 1990.

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noun

1. A great deal: abundance, mass, mountain, much, profusion, wealth, world. Informal barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck², pile. Regional power, sight. See big/small/amount.
2. Prosperity and a sufficiency of life's necessities: abundance, bounteousness, bountifulness, plenitude, plenteousness. See rich/poor.

n

Definition: much, abundance
Antonyms: few, lack, little, need, scarcity, want

IN BRIEF: n. - A full supply; (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent adv. - As much as necessary.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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adjective
adjective, mainly US

Excellent, fine. (1933 —) .
R. P. Smith When they want to say a man's good, they say he plays plenty sax or plenty drums (1941).

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Dansk (Danish)
pron. - nok
n. - rigdom, velstand, overflod
adv. - rigelig
adj. - vældig, mægtig, mere end

Nederlands (Dutch)
overvloed, (ruim) genoeg, in overvloed, volop

Français (French)
pron. - beaucoup, en quantité, en abondance, beaucoup de
n. - abondance
adv. - suffisamment, assez, largement, (US) très, beaucoup
adj. - à revendre, beaucoup de

Deutsch (German)
n. - Überfluß
adj. - reichlich vorhanden
adv. - reichlich
pron. - reichlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αφθονία, πληθώρα, περίσσεια, πλήθος
adj. - μπόλικος, αρκετός
adv. - άφθονα, μπόλικα
pron. - πολύς, πολλοί

Italiano (Italian)
profusione, un sacco, a profusione, in abbondanza, abbastanza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - abundância (f), fartura (f), plenitude (f)
adj. - abundante, farto, pleno
adv. - abundantemente, fartamente, plenamente

Русский (Russian)
изобилие, достаточный, избыточный

Español (Spanish)
pron. - bastante, suficiente
n. - abundancia, cantidad suficiente, copia, profusión
adv. - bastante, suficiente, abundante, más que, en forma abundante
adj. - bastante, suficiente, abundante, más que

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - överflöd, mängd, ymnighet, rikedom
adj. - gott om, rikligt
adv. - ganska så, alldeles
pron. - tillräckligt, nog

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
充分, 丰富, 很多, 足够, 充分地, 很, 非常, 很多的, 丰富的, 够的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 充分
n. - 充分, 豐富, 很多
adv. - 足夠, 充分地, 很, 非常
adj. - 很多的, 豐富的, 夠的

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 충분함
n. - 많음, 가득
adv. - 충분히, 철저히
adj. - 많은, 충분한

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - たくさん, 豊富, 多量, 十分
adj. - たくさんで, 豊富な
adv. - たっぷり

idioms:

• plenty more fish in the sea    まだまだたくさんある

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) متسع من الووقت (صفه) وفرة, كثرة (ظرف) بوفرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮סכום או כמות מספיקים או גדולים, יותר מדי‬
n. - ‮כמות רבה, עושר, שפע, ברכה‬
adv. - ‮די הרבה, מאוד‬
adj. - ‮שופע, גדוש, די והותר‬

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