Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Plenty"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl. {Plenties}, in --Shak. [OE. plentee,
plente, OF. plent['e], fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See
{Full}, a., and cf. {Complete}.]
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;
specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample
supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. ``Plenty of
corn and wine.'' --Gen. xxvii. 28. ``Promises Britain peace
and plenty.'' --Shak.

Houses of office stuffed with plentee. --Chaucer.

The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the
world. --Thomson.

Syn: Abundance; exuberance. See {Abundance}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Plenty \Plen"ty\, a.
Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. --Shak.
(Folio ed.)

Those countries where shrubs are plenty. --Goldsmith.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

plenty
n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn:
{plentifulness}, {plenteousness}, {plenitude}, {plentitude}]
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
{mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {pot}, {quite
a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
adv : as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is
nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: {enough}]


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