資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl. {Plenties}, in --Shak. [OE. plentee,
   plente, OF. plent['e], fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See
   {Full}, a., and cf. {Complete}.]
   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}.