abundance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a very large quantity of something; plenty

   Because of the abundance of materials, the class made a giant collage.

2. 2
   noun

   the state of having more than enough; wealth

   They lived in abundance after the business succeeded.

From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).

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