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PLEN'TY, n. [from L. plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.

1. Fruitfulness; a poetic use.

The teeming clouds

Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.

PLEN'TY, a. Plentiful; being in abundance.

Where water is plenty--

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.

In every country where liquors are plenty.

The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty.

A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty.

They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.

When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low.

In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger.

[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]


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PLEN'TY, n. [from L. plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.

1. Fruitfulness; a poetic use.

The teeming clouds

Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.

PLEN'TY, a. Plentiful; being in abundance.

Where water is plenty--

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.

In every country where liquors are plenty.

The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty.

A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty.

They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.

When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low.

In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger.

[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]

PLEN'TY, a.

Plentiful; being in abundance. Where water is plenty. – Tusser. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. – Shak. In every country where liquors are plenty. – Hist. Collections. The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty. – Tooke, Russ. Emp. A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty. – Adair. They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce. – Goldsmith. When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low. – Franklin. In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger. – Encyc. [The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]


PLEN'TY, n. [from L. plenus.]

  1. Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.
  2. Fruitfulness; a poetic use. The teeming clouds / Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world. – Thomson.

Plen"ty
  1. 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.

  2. Plentiful; abundant.

    [Obs. or Colloq.]

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

    Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

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Plenty

PLEN'TY, noun [from Latin plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.

1. Fruitfulness; a poetic use.

The teeming clouds

Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.

PLEN'TY, adjective Plentiful; being in abundance.

Where water is plenty--

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.

In every country where liquors are plenty

The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty

A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty

They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.

When laborers are plenty their wages will be low.

In the country, where wood is more plenty they make their beams stronger.

[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

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Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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