Definition for PLEN'TY

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.

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