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| 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
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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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adj. am·pler, am·plest
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin amplus.] am'ple·ness n., am'ply (-plē) adv. |
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ample
1437, from M.Fr. ample, from L. amplus "large, spacious."
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| 1. | more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply" [ant: meager] |
| 2. | affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" |
| 3. | fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" |
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ample [ˈӕmpl] adjective
(more than) enough
Example: There is ample space for four people.
Example: There is ample space for four people.
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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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Ample
A*bun"dant\, a. [OE. (h)abundant, aboundant, F. abondant, fr. L. abudans, p. pr. of abundare. See Abound.] Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." --Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number (Math.), a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3. Syn: Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See Ample.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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