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am⋅ple

  [am-puhl]
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–adjective, -pler, -plest.
1. fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough: an ample supply of water; ample time to finish.
2. of sufficient or abundant measure; liberal; copious: an ample reward.
3. of adequate or more than adequate extent, size, or amount; large; spacious; roomy: ample storage space.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < AF < L amplus wide, large

Related forms:
am⋅ple⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. See plentiful. 2. generous, free, abounding, lavish, plenteous, overflowing. Ample, liberal, copious, profuse describe degrees of abundant provision. Ample implies a plentiful provision: to give ample praise. Liberal implies provision from a generous supply (more than ample but less than copious): Liberal amounts of food were distributed to the needy. Copious implies an apparently inexhaustible and lavish abundance: a copious flow of tears. Profuse implies a still more unrestrained abundance of provision or flow: profuse in his apologies. 3. extensive, vast, great, capacious.

Antonyms:
2. scanty, meager.
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am·ple   (ām'pəl)   
adj.   am·pler, am·plest
  1. Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity: an ample living room. See Synonyms at spacious.
    1. Large in degree, kind, or quantity: an ample reward.
    2. More than enough: ample evidence.
  3. Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose: had ample food for the party. See Synonyms at plentiful.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin amplus.]
am'ple·ness n., am'ply (-plē) adv.
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Ample

Am"ple\, a. [F. ample, L. amplus, prob. for ambiplus full on both sides, the last syllable akin to L. plenus full. See Full, and cf. Double.] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser.

2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

3. Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. --Johnson.

Syn: Full; spacious; extensive; wide; capacious; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; copious; bountiful; rich; liberal; munificent.

Usage: Ample, Copious, Abundant, Plenteous. These words agree in representing a thing as large, but under different relations, according to the image which is used. Ample implies largeness, producing a sufficiency or fullness of supply for every want; as, ample stores or resources, ample provision. Copious carries with it the idea of flow, or of collection at a single point; as, a copious supply of materials. "Copious matter of my song." --Milton. Abundant and plenteous refer to largeness of quantity; as, abundant stores; plenteous harvests.
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Language Translation for : ample
Spanish: bastante, de sobra,
German: reichlich,
Japanese: 広い
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ample 
1437, from M.Fr. ample, from L. amplus "large, spacious."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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AMPLE language, music
A FORTH-like language for programming the 500/5000 series of add-on music synthesisers for the BBC Microcomputer. AMPLE was produced by Hybrid Technologies, Cambridge, England in the mid 1980s. Many AMPLE programs were published in Acorn User magazine.
(1995-11-01)

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