plenty

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a full supply
  2. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  3. adverb as much as necessary; ; (`plenty' is nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.

In classic literature

Synonyms

plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude

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