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plen⋅ty

  [plen-tee] noun, plural -ties, adjective, adverb
Use Plenty in a Sentence
–noun
1. a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
2. the state or quality of being plentiful; abundance: resources in plenty.
3. an abundance, as of goods or luxuries, or a time of such abundance: the plenty of a rich harvest; the plenty that comes with peace.
–adjective
4. existing in ample quantity or number; plentiful; abundant: Food is never too plenty in the area.
5. more than sufficient; ample: That helping is plenty for me.
–adverb
6. Informal. fully; quite: plenty good enough.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME plente < OF; r. ME plenteth < OF plented, plentet < L plēnitāt- (s. of plēnitās) fullness. See plenum, -ity

Synonyms:
2. plenteousness, copiousness, luxuriance, affluence. Plenty, abundance, profusion refer to a large quantity or supply. Plenty suggests a supply that is fully adequate to any demands: plenty of money. Abundance implies a great plenty, an ample and generous oversupply: an abundance of rain. Profusion applies to such a lavish and excessive abundance as often suggests extravagance or prodigality: luxuries in great profusion.

Usage note:
The construction plenty of is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of plenty preceding a noun, without an intervening of, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed. It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in the mid-19th century, plenty is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech.
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plen·ty   (plěn'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; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

plenty 
c.1225, from O.Fr. plentet (12c., Mod.Fr. dial. plenté), from L. plenitatem (nom. plenitas) "fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary). The colloquial adv. meaning "very much" is first attested 1842. Plentiful is first recorded c.1470.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

plenty

see under not the only fish in the sea.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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