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ga⋅lore
[guh-lawr, -lohr] 
–adverb
| 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)
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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| ga·lore (gə-lôr', -lōr') 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
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.
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Language Translation for : galore
Spanish:
a montones, en abundancia,
German:
in Hülle und Fülle,
Japanese:
たくさんの
galore
1675, from Ir. go leór, corresponding to Gael. gu leóir "sufficiently, enough."
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