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[buh-nan-zuh, boh-]

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noun

a rich mass of ore, as found in mining.

a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall: The play proved to be a bonanza for its lucky backers.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; < Spanish: literally, smooth sea (hence, good luck, rich vein of ore), nasalized variant of Medieval Latin bonacia, equivalent to Latin bon(us) good + (mal)acia calm sea < Greek malakía softness (malak(ós) soft + -ia -ia)

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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The state's oil boom is no guaranteed bonanza for higher education.

Given the risk of price volatility and depletion, it is sensible to save some of the bonanza from commodities for a rainy day.

The bonanza came at a cost to forests and wildlife, though.

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The state's oil boom is no guaranteed bonanza for higher education.

Given the risk of price volatility and depletion, it is sensible to save some of the bonanza from commodities for a rainy day.

The bonanza came at a cost to forests and wildlife, though.

But what made the whole thing such a bonanza for the humpbacks was the absence of sea ice.

Car companies that didn't cash in on the preceding bonanza are now focusing on putting money into their testing facilities.

Of course, rising market prices for oil could overcome the cost of regulation and set off a drilling bonanza.

The past three seasons have brought a bonanza of discoveries.

One industry's expense is another industry's sales bonanza.

There are simpler explanations for the executives' bonanza.

The project could be a bonanza for oyster harvesters.

Fossil fuels are an amazing bonanza of relatively portable and inexpensive energy.

Along comes a huge storm, with gale-force winds, and my bonanza was over three days early.

The show proved to be a retailing bonanza in its day, worth, by one estimate.

Selling new technology to governments has brought private contractors a bonanza of many tens of billions of.

Coté sees no problem with drugmakers earning an unexpected bonanza from their investment.

Already, dozens of startups are positioning themselves for this bonanza.

Bill started, the huge program has turned into a bonanza of another kind for the many commercial.

They have initiated their own online music ventures with an eye toward the inevitable electronic commerce bonanza on the horizon.

Clearly they are a bonanza for consumers, who have been eagerly funneling spare cash into them.

And that's only the beginning of the taxpayers' bonanza in the sale of our valuable thin air.

Corrupt army officers are also afraid that they might miss out on an expected oil bonanza.

Bedbugs are showing up in commercial settings, creating a bonanza for companies that deal with the scourge.

In practice the result may be a bonanza for corrupt officials.

They have brought a bonanza of jobs and wealth to the area and to the province.

But this may not provide reactor vendors with a bonanza.

The result was a bonanza for the management-consulting industry.

But they represent a bonanza to small biotechnology firms.

All the same, the slimming business is not proving the bonanza that its proponents hope.

The commodity bonanza won't last forever, so now is the time to fix these things.

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bonanza (bəˈnænzə)

—n
1.	a source, usually sudden and unexpected, of luck or wealth
2.	(US), (Canadian) a mine or vein rich in ore

[C19: from Spanish, literally: calm sea, hence, good luck, from Medieval Latin bonacia, from Latin bonus good + malacia dead calm, from Greek malakia softness]

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Word Origin & History

bonanza

1844, Amer.Eng., from Sp. bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from V.L. *bonacia, from L. bonus "good" (see bene-).

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