plenty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a full supply
    plentifulness; plentitude; plenteousness; plenitude.
    • there was plenty of food for everyone
  2. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    great deal; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
    • a batch of letters
    • a deal of trouble
    • a lot of money
    • he made a mint on the stock market
    • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    • it must have cost plenty
    • a slew of journalists
    • a wad of money
  3. adverb as much as necessary; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
    enough.
    • Have I eaten enough?

WordNet

Plen"ty noun
Etymology
OE. plentee, plente, OF. plenté, fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See Full, a., and cf. Complete.
Wordforms
plural Plenties in Shak
Definitions
  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.
Plen"ty adjective
Definitions
  1. Plentiful; abundant. Obs. or Colloq.
    If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.)
    Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

Webster 1913