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
plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitudenoun
a full supply
"there was plenty of food for everyone"
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"
enough, plentyadverb
as much as necessary
"Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
Wiktionary
plentynoun
An adequate amount.
We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
plentyadverb
Sufficiently or very.
This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
plentypronoun
A sufficient quantity. More than enough.
plentyadjective
plentiful.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Plentyadjective
full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness
Plentyadjective
plentiful; abundant
Wikidata
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
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
PLENTY
A desirable condition that is likely to step out whenever Extravagance steps in.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Plenty' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2436
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Plenty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1262
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Anagrams for Plenty »
pentyl
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Plenty in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Plenty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Plenty in a Sentence
Over the last 100 years, there has been plenty to celebrate, over the next 100 years, protecting (open) spaces is even more important.
Find the right entertainers and today that's evidenced by having massive social media following. ‘SNL’ has plenty of talent to wrap around the host.
While there can be plenty of exciting moments, many aspects of work travel aren't as glamorous as you might think — being able to work toward a free vacation can certainly help take the sting out of spending so much in economy airplane seats and at cookie-cutter hotels instead of at home.
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
I never attacked him or his looks, and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there.
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Translations for Plenty
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- كثيرArabic
- мно́га, шматBelarusian
- изоби́лиеBulgarian
- množství, dostCzech
- Fülle, ÜberflussGerman
- αφθονίαGreek
- abundoEsperanto
- abundanciaSpanish
- runsaasti, riittävästiFinnish
- abondanceFrench
- leordhóthain, flúirseIrish
- pailteasScottish Gaelic
- שפעHebrew
- खूबHindi
- bőségHungarian
- okeIgbo
- abbondanza, cuccagnaItalian
- 豊富, 沢山Japanese
- სიუხვეGeorgian
- 많음Korean
- до́ста, изо́билство, мно́гуMacedonian
- overvloedDutch
- abundânciaPortuguese
- belșugRomanian
- оби́лие, избы́ток, изоби́лие, предоста́точно, доста́точно, доста́ток, мно́жество, мно́гоRussian
- rikligt, riklighetSwedish
- நிறையTamil
- bollukTurkish
- доста́токUkrainian
- bundanVolapük
- 丰富Chinese
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