English-Thai Dictionary

plenty

ADJ มาก พอ  เพียงพอ  มาก  มากมาย  mak-por

 

plenty

ADV อย่างเต็มที่  ทีเดียว  เพียงพอ  enough yang-tem-ti

 

plenty

N จำนวนมาก มาย  ปริมาณ อุดมสมบูรณ์  ปริมาณ เหลือเฟือ  abundance fullness plentifulness scarcity jam-nuan-mak-mai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLENTY

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.

 

PLENTY

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. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLENTY

Plen "ty, n.; pl. Plenties, in Shak. Etym: [OE. plentee, plente, OF. plenté, fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See Full, a., and cf. Complete. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

PLENTY

PLENTY Plen "ty, a.

 

Defn: Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq. ] If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed. ) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

plenty

plen ty |ˈplentē ˈplɛn (t )i | ▶pronoun a large or sufficient amount or quantity; more than enough: I would have plenty of time to get home | you'll have plenty to keep you busy | [ as adj. ] informal or dialect : there was plenty room. ▶noun a situation in which food and other necessities are available in sufficiently large quantities: such natural phenomena as famine and plenty. ▶adverb [ usu. as submodifier ] informal used to emphasize the degree of something: she has plenty more ideas. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘fullness, perfection ’): from Old French plente, from Latin plenitas, from plenus ‘full. ’

 

Plenty, Bay of

Plenty, Bay of a region of the North Island, New Zealand, extending around the bay of the same name. The port of Tauranga is situated on it.

 

Oxford Dictionary

plenty

plenty |ˈplɛnti | ▶pronoun a large or sufficient amount or quantity; more than enough: I would have plenty of time to get home before my parents arrived | you'll have plenty to keep you busy | there are shops in plenty | [ as determiner ] informal or dialect : there was plenty room. ▶noun [ mass noun ] a situation in which food and other necessities are available in sufficiently large quantities: such natural phenomena as famine and plenty. ▶adverb [ usu. as submodifier ] informal used to emphasize the degree of something: she has plenty more ideas. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘fullness, perfection ’): from Old French plente, from Latin plenitas, from plenus ‘full ’.

 

Plenty, Bay of

Plenty, Bay of a region of the North Island, New Zealand, extending around the bay of the same name. The port of Tauranga is situated on it.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

plenty

plenty noun times of plenty: prosperity, affluence, wealth, opulence, comfort, luxury; plentifulness, abundance; literary plenteousness. ▶pronoun there are plenty of books: a lot of, many, a great deal of, enough (and to spare ), no lack of, sufficient, a wealth of; informal loads of, lots of, heaps of, stacks of, masses of, tons of, oodles of, scads of, a slew of, a bucketload of, a shedload of.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

plenty

plenty noun we live in times of plenty: prosperity, affluence, wealth, opulence, comfort, well-being, luxury; plentifulness, abundance, fruitfulness, profusion; literary plenteousness. ▶pronoun there are plenty of books available on the subject: a lot of, many, a great deal of, a good deal of, a large number /amount of, a plethora of, quantities of, enough, more than enough, enough and to spare, no lack of, sufficient, a wealth of, a feast of, a cornucopia of; informal loads of, lots of, heaps of, bags of, stacks of, piles of, masses of, tons of, oodles of, oceans of, a raft of, a hatful of, more … than one can shake a stick at; Brit. informal lashings of; N. Amer. informal scads of, a slew of, gobs of, gazillions of; Austral. /NZ informal a swag of; vulgar slang a shitload of, shitloads of; archaic a deal of, a mickle of, a peck of.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

plenty

plen ty /plénti , ｟話 ｠pleni /〖語源は 「十分であること 」〗名詞 U 1 〖通例肯定文で 〗(十分足りるほど )たくさん , 十分 , 多数 , 多量 (↔lack ); 〖～ of A 〗たくさんのA , 十分なA (lots of A ) (!Aは U か C 複数形; 通例否定文ではmany, muchを, 疑問文ではenoughを用いる; ｟米 /英 方言 ｠ではa plenty ofの表現も用いる ) ▸ There is plenty of evidence to arrest him .彼を逮捕する証拠は十分にある ▸ take plenty of exercise 十分に運動をする ▸ I had plenty of time to think it over .私にはそれについて熟考する十分な時間があった ▸ I have plenty to tell you .あなたに話すことがたくさんある 2 ｟かたく ｠豊富 , 豊饒 （ほうじよう ）▸ years of peace and plenty 平和と豊饒の年 ▸ the horn of plenty 豊饒の角 .in pl é nty 十分に ; 裕福に 〈暮すなど 〉▸ There is food and water in plenty .食料と水は十分にある 形容詞 比較なし ｟古 /米 くだけて /スコット 方言 ｠十分な , たくさんの , 豊富な ▸ He has plenty things to do .彼にはやるべきことがたくさんある 副詞 比較なし 1 ｟くだけて ｠〖形容詞 副詞 の前で 〗たっぷり , たくさん (!量や程度を強調する際に用いる; more ＋名詞 , 形容詞 ＋enoughを修飾することが多い ) ▸ That computer is plenty big enough for this software .あのコンピュータならこのソフトには十分に用が足りる ▸ There will be plenty more chances .チャンスはまだまだあるだろう 2 ｟米 主に話 ｠とても, かなり ▸ laugh [talk ] plenty 大笑いする [よくしゃべる ]