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nompronomadverbedéterminantadjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈplɛnti//
  • États-Unis//ˈplɛnti//
  • États-Unis/[ˈplɛɾ̃i]/
  • États-Unis/[ˈplɛni]/
  • /[ˈplɪɾ̃i]/

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

nom

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

    We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

    'It's all right, darling,' said Bond, pulling out his notecase. 'You've forgotten you gave me your money to look after before we left the house.' 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.

Étymologie

From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.

pronom

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    More than enough.

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

adverbe

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    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.

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    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?'

    Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.

déterminant

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    much, enough

    There'll be plenty time later for that

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    many

    Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

adjectif

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    obsolètePlentiful.

    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.

    Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]

Formes

pluriel
plenties
comparatif
more plenty
superlatif
most plenty
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).