abundant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   present in great quantity

   an abundant supply of water

2. 2
   adj

   Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.

   Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.

3. 3
   adj

   Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.

   Abundant in goodness and truth.

4. 4
   adj

   Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.