Plentyname

• 1

  A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

• 2

  A town in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

• 3

  A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, Victoria, Australia

plentynoun/ˈplɛnti/

• 1

  A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.

  • We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
  • During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage.

plentypron/ˈplɛnti/

• 1

  More than enough.

  • Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.

plentyadv/ˈplɛnti/

• 1

  More than sufficiently.

  • This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
  • For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.
• 2

  Used as an intensifier, very.

  • She was plenty mad at him.
  • 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor. 'Shops is plenty expensive in St Pete. Plenty hot down there too. You folks been to Florida before?'

plentydet/ˈplɛnti/

• 1

  much, enough

  • There'll be plenty time later for that
• 2

  many

  • Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

plentyadj/ˈplɛnti/

• 1

  obsoletePlentiful.

  • if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
  • There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.