Definitions for plenty
ˈplɛn tiplen·ty

Princeton's WordNet(2.33 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude(noun)

   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, wad(adverb)

   (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, plenty(adverb)

   as much as necessary

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

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. plenty(Noun)

   An adequate amount.

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

2. plenty(Adverb)

   Sufficiently or very.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

3. plenty(Pronoun)

   A sufficient quantity. More than enough.

4. plenty(Adjective)

   plentiful.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Plenty(adj)

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

2. Plenty(adj)

   plentiful; abundant

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. PLENTY

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

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

Anagrams for plenty »

1. pentyl

How to pronounce plenty?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. English Proverb:

   In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.

2. Torine Creppy:

   It's easy to look at your beautiful, newborn baby and think that he's not going anywhere anytime soon ; believing you still have plenty of time to child-proof your home, but we've learned from our research that parents are all too often surprised by how quickly their babies grow and change. That's why it's so important to start life-saving habits, like safe medicine storage, well before your baby is on the move.

3. Scott Schieman:

   There are plenty of chronic strains and low-grade challenges that don't necessarily overwhelm you in the moment, but almost take more of a toll in the long run.

4. Johann von Goethe:

   If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

5. Abraham Lincoln:

   No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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