plenty

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a full supply

   there was plenty of food for everyone

2. 2
   noun

   A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.

   We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

3. 3
   pron

   More than enough.

   Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.

4. 4
   adv

   More than sufficiently.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

5. 5
   adv

   Used as an intensifier, very.

   She was plenty mad at him.

6. 6
   det

   much, enough

   There'll be plenty time later for that

7. 7
   det

   many

   Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

8. 8
   adj

   Plentiful.

   if reasons were as plenty as blackberries

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.