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| in abundance; in plentiful amounts: food and drink galore. |
[Origin: 1660–70; < Ir go leor enough, plenty (ScotGael gu leòr, leòir), equiv. to go, particle forming predicative adjectives and adverbs + leór enough (OIr lour)
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adj. In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs . . . and fireworks galore" (Anne Armstrong). [Irish Gaelic go leór, enough : go, adv. particle + leór, enough (from Old Irish lour, alteration of roar; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots).] |
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galore
1675, from Ir. go leór, corresponding to Gael. gu leóir "sufficiently, enough."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| galore | |
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| 1. | in great numbers; "daffodils galore" |
| 2. | existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore" [syn: abounding] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
galore [gəˈloː] adjective
(placed immediately after noun) in large amounts, numbers
Example: There are book-shops galore in this town.
Example: There are book-shops galore in this town.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Galore
Ga*lore"\, n. & a. [Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu le[`o]r, enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + le[`o]r, le[`o]ir, enough; or fr. Ir. goleor, the same word.] Plenty; abundance; in abundance.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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