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  • 51plenty — n., adj., & adv. n. (often foll. by of) a great or sufficient quantity or number (we have plenty; plenty of time). adj. colloq. existing in an ample quantity. adv. colloq. fully, entirely (it is plenty large enough). Etymology: ME plenteth,… …

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  • 52Plenty Highway — Infobox Australian Road |type = road road name = Plenty Highway route route route photo = caption = length = 492 direction = West East start = finish = Donohue Highway, Tobermorey Homestead, Northern Territory NT/Qld Border est = through =… …

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  • 53plenty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sufficiency, abundance, profusion, amplitude, copiousness; wealth, luxury. Ant., scarcity, paucity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. abundance, lot, lots, fruitfulness, profuseness, fullness, lavishness,… …

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  • 54plenty — [13] Plenty is one of a family of English words that trace their history back to Latin plēnus ‘full’ (a descendant of the same Indo European base, *plē , as produced English full and plethora). Others include plenary [16], plenipotentiary [17],… …

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  • 55plenty — 1. noun times of plenty Syn: prosperity, affluence, wealth, opulence, comfort, luxury; plentifulness, abundance; literary plenteousness 2. pronoun there are plenty of books Syn: a lot of, many, a great deal of, enough (and to spare) …

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  • 56plenty — 1. pronoun there are plenty of books Syn: a lot of, many, a great deal of, a plethora of, enough and to spare, no lack of, a wealth of; informal loads of, heaps of, stacks of, masses of 2. noun times of plenty Syn: prosperity, af …

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  • 57plenty — plentiful / plenty [adj] abundant, productive abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, bumper*, chock full*, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident,… …

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  • 58plenty — [13] Plenty is one of a family of English words that trace their history back to Latin plēnus ‘full’ (a descendant of the same Indo European base, *plē , as produced English full and plethora). Others include plenary [16], plenipotentiary [17],… …

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  • 59Plenty, Bay of — ▪ bay, New Zealand       bay of the South Pacific Ocean, eastern North Island, New Zealand. About 100 miles (160 km) wide, it extends along a narrow lowland strip from Waihi Beach eastward to Opotiki. The Rangitaiki and Whakatane rivers empty… …

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  • 60plenty of other fish —    To say this means that there are many other people just as good as the person mentioned.     The candidate we selected refused the job? Never mind there are (plenty of) other fish in the sea! …

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