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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
abundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)
- A large quantity; many.
- Synonyms: heap, load; see also Thesaurus:lot
Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
- An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
- Synonyms: exuberance, copiousness, overflow, plenty, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude; see also Thesaurus:excess
c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
- Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
- Synonyms: riches, affluence, wealth; see also Thesaurus:wealth
- Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
- (card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
- (Scotland) enough, sufficiency.
Usage notes
- Synonym notes: abundance, plenty, exuberance. These words express increasing levels of fullness.
- plenty denotes there is enough to supply every need; e.g., plenty of food, plenty of money, etc.
- abundance expresses more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; e.g., the abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor
- Exuberance expresses even more, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing an enormous amount of superfluity or redundancy; e.g. an exuberance of talent, lakes replete with an exuberance of fish
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ample sufficiency
- Afrikaans: oorvloed
- Albanian: bollëk (sq) f
- Arabic: كَثْرَة f (kaṯra), غَزَارَة f (ḡazāra)
- Armenian: առատություն (hy) (aṙatutʿyun)
- Azerbaijani: bolluq (az)
- Bulgarian: обилие (bg) (obilie), изобилие (bg) (izobilie)
- Catalan: abundància (ca) f
- Crimean Tatar: bereket
- Czech: hojnost (cs) f
- Dalmatian: bonduanza f
- Dutch: overvloed (nl)
- Esperanto: sufiĉego, abundo (eo), abundeco (eo)
- Finnish: runsaus (fi), yltäkylläisyys (fi), ylenpalttisuus (fi)
- French: abondance (fr) f
- Galician: abundancia (gl) f, fartura f, abastanza f
- German: Überfluss (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌲𐌳𐌿𐌸𐍃 f (managdūþs)
- Greek:
- Ancient: περισσεία f (perisseía), δαψίλεια f (dapsíleia)
- Haitian Creole: abondans
- Hebrew: שפע (he) m (shéfa’)
- Hungarian: bőség (hu), áradat (hu)
- Icelandic: gnægð (is) f
- Indonesian: limpah-ruah
- Ingrian: kyllys
- Interlingua: abundantia
- Irish: líonmhaireacht f, raidhse f, flúirse f
- Italian: abbondanza (it), cuccagna (it) f
- Japanese: 大量 (ja) (tairyō), 多量 (ja) (taryō), 豊富 (ja) (hōfu), 過剰 (ja) (kajō)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زۆری (zorî)
- Latin: cōpia (la) f, abundantia f, largitās f
- Luxembourgish: Iwwerfloss m
- Macedonian: изо́билство n (izóbilstvo), изоби́лие n (izobílie), оби́лие n (obílie)
- Malay: kelimpahan
- Maori: ranea, harahara
- Norwegian: overflod c
- Persian: فراوانی (fa) (farâvâni), فزونی (fa) (fozuni)
- Polish: obfitość (pl) f
- Portuguese: abundância (pt) f
- Romanian: abundență (ro) f
- Russian: изоби́лие (ru) n (izobílije)
- Sanskrit: आयात (sa) n (āyāta), ऋद्धि (sa) f (ṛddhi)
- Scottish Gaelic: pailteas m
- Serbo-Croatian: изобиље n (izobilje), обиље n
- Spanish: abundancia (es)
- Swahili: wingi (sw)
- Swedish: överflöd (sv) c
- Tagalog: kasaganaan
- Tocharian B: artkiye
- Turkish: bolluk (tr), varlık (tr) (jeology)
- Ukrainian: рясно́та f (rjasnóta), рясо́та f (rjasóta)
- Vietnamese: phong phú (vi)
- Volapük: bundan (vo)
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solo whist: bid to take nine or more tricks
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abundance”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
- ^ “abundance, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.