What does plenty mean?

Definitions for plenty
ˈplɛn tiplen·ty

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word plenty.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitudenoun

    a full supply

    "there was plenty of food for everyone"

  2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadadverb

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

  3. enough, plentyadverb

    as much as necessary

    "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"

Wiktionary

  1. plentynoun

    An adequate amount.

    We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

  2. plentyadverb

    Sufficiently or very.

    This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

  3. plentypronoun

    A sufficient quantity. More than enough.

  4. plentyadjective

    plentiful.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PLENTYnoun

    Etymology: from plenus, full.

    Peace,
    Dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful birth. William Shakespeare.

    What makes land, as well as other things, dear, is plenty of buyers, and but few sellers; and so plenty of sellers and few buyers makes land cheap. John Locke.

    The teeming clouds
    Descend in gladsome plenty o’er the world. James Thomson.

    To grass with thy calves,
    Where water is plenty. Thomas Tusser, Husbandry.

    If reasons were as plenty as black berries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the Lord. Joel ii. 26.

ChatGPT

  1. plenty

    Plenty refers to a large or sufficient amount or quantity; an abundance or more than enough. It can also mean a situation in which resources or opportunities are available in large quantities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plentyadjective

    full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness

  2. Plentyadjective

    plentiful; abundant

Wikidata

  1. Plenty

    Plenty is a play by David Hare, first performed in 1978, about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs—she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi-occupied France during World War II—and the mundane nature of her present life, as the increasingly depressed wife of a diplomat whose career she has destroyed. Viewing society as morally bankrupt, Susan has become self-absorbed, bored, and destructive — the slow deterioration in her mental health mirrors the crises in the ruling class of post-war Britain. Susan Traherne's story is told in a non-linear chronology, alternating between her wartime and post-wartime lives, illustrating how youthful dreams rarely are realised and how a person's personal life can affect the outside world.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Plenty

    plen′ti, n. a full supply: all that can be needed: abundance.—adj. being in abundance.—adj. Plen′tēous, fully sufficient: abundant: fruitful: well provided: rich: (B.) giving plentifully.—adv. Plen′tēously.—n. Plen′tēousness.—adj. Plen′tiful, copious: abundant: yielding abundance.—adv. Plen′tifully.—n. Plen′tifulness.—Horn of plenty (see Horn). [O. Fr. plente—L. plenus, full.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. PLENTY

    A desirable condition that is likely to step out whenever Extravagance steps in.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PLENTY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Plenty is ranked #80678 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Plenty surname appeared 235 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Plenty.

    72.3% or 170 total occurrences were Black.
    17.4% or 41 total occurrences were White.
    4.6% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.5% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'plenty' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2436

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'plenty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1262

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of plenty in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of plenty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of plenty in a Sentence

  1. Aja Brown:

    We are happy to see the Plenty farm start to grow its roots in the community during the build out process, the vegetables Plenty produces will be proudly grown and managed by Compton residents, and we look forward to creating a solid partnership with them.

  2. Mark Hillman:

    We still think there is plenty of opportunity in this space.

  3. David Snitkof:

    There was plenty of fast money in the industry [last year], but a lot of those funds have faced redemptions in other asset classes.

  4. Maria Tam:

    At the moment there are still plenty of tools. We have different articles in the police force ordinance and articles in the public order ordinance which we can still invoke to control the situation. We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages. We're quite a distance from that.

  5. Stanley Goldfarb:

    If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded.

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