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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a full supply;
- Example: "there was plenty of food for everyone"
[syn: plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude]

2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
- Example: "a batch of letters"
- Example: "a deal of trouble"
- Example: "a lot of money"
- Example: "he made a mint on the stock market"
- Example: "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"
- Example: "it must have cost plenty"
- Example: "a slew of journalists"
- Example: "a wad of money"
[syn: 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 (1)

1. as much as necessary;
- Example: "Have I eaten enough?" (`plenty'; is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks";
[syn: enough, plenty]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Plenty \Plen"ty\, a.
   Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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         If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. --Shak.
                                                  (Folio ed.)
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         Those countries where shrubs are plenty. --Goldsmith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl. Plenties, in --Shak. [OE. plentee,
   plente, OF. plent['e], fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See
   Full, a., and cf. Complete.]
   Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;
   specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample
   supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of
   corn and wine." --Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and
   plenty." --Shak.
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         Houses of office stuffed with plentee.   --Chaucer.
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         The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the
         world.                                   --Thomson.
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   Syn: Abundance; exuberance. See Abundance.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

plenty
    adv 1: as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty'
           is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: enough,
           plenty]
    n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
         [syn: plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness,
         plenitude, plentitude]
    2: (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" [syn:
       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]