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English
Etymology
First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt ,[ 1] habundaunt ,[ 2] aboundant , from Anglo-Norman abundant , from Old French abondant , from Latin abundāns , present participle of abundo ( “ to overflow, to abound ” ) . Compare abound .
Pronunciation
Adjective
abundant (comparative more abundant , superlative most abundant )
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. [ 3]
Antonyms: rare , scarce
Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
an abundant selection of carpets to choose from
a. 1859 , Leigh Hunt , On the Realities of Imagination :ith their magical words they bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation.
2017 , BioWare , Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction ), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC , PC, scene: Kadara:Kadara was of great interest to the Andromeda Initiative after it appeared on long-range surveys. Seemingly abundant liquid water and an oxygen-mix atmosphere made it a strong candidate for settlement, earning it the designation Habitat 4. Closer range surveys now reveal that Kadara's water sources are tainted and unpotable.
Richly supplied ; wealthy ; possessing in great quantity. [ 3]
( mathematics ) Being an abundant number , i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself. [ 3]
Antonym: deficient
Usage notes
( richly supplied ) : Normally followed by the word in or ( obsolete ) of .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
fully sufficient; plentiful
Arabic: وافِر (ar) ( wāfir )
Moroccan Arabic: وافْر ( wāfr )
Armenian: առատ (hy) ( aṙat )
Azerbaijani: bol (az)
Belarusian: бага́ты (be) ( baháty )
Bengali: বহুল (bn) ( bohul )
Bulgarian: оби́лен (bg) ( obílen ) , изоби́лен (bg) ( izobílen )
Catalan: abundant (ca)
Chamicuro: icheeki
Chinese:
Mandarin: 豐富 / 丰富 (zh) ( fēngfù )
Cornish: pals
Czech: hojný (cs) m
Danish: rigelig
Dutch: overvloedig (nl) , rijkelijk voorhanden , abondant (nl)
Esperanto: abunda (eo)
Finnish: runsas (fi) , yltäkylläinen (fi)
French: abondant (fr)
Galician: abundante (gl) , abondoso
Georgian: უხვი ( uxvi ) , სავსე ( savse ) , დოვლათიანი ( dovlatiani )
German: reichlich (de) , wohlhabend (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍉𐌷𐍃 ( ganōhs )
Greek: άφθονος (el) ( áfthonos )
Ancient: ἄφθονος ( áphthonos ) , δαψιλής ( dapsilḗs ) , περισσός ( perissós )
Hungarian: bőséges (hu) , kiadós (hu)
Ido: abundanta (io)
Interlingua: abundante
Irish: líonmhar , raidhsiúil , fairsing
Italian: abbondante (it)
Japanese: 豊か (ja) ( yutaka ) , 量の多い (ja) ( ryō no ōi )
Latin: abundans , amplus (la) , largus
Latvian: bagātīgs
Lithuanian: gausus
Maori: ranea , makuru
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rikelig (no) , rik (no)
Ottoman Turkish: كور ( gür )
Plautdietsch: riew
Polish: obfity (pl)
Portuguese: abundante (pt)
Quechua: yupa
Romanian: abundent (ro)
Russian: оби́льный (ru) m ( obílʹnyj ) , изоби́лующий (ru) m ( izobílujuščij )
Sanskrit: बहु (sa) ( bahu )
Scots: roch
Scottish Gaelic: pailt
Spanish: abundante (es) , copioso (es) , cuantioso (es)
Swedish: riklig (sv) , ymnig (sv)
Telugu: మిక్కిలి (te) ( mikkili )
Tocharian B: īte
Turkish: bol (tr)
Ukrainian: бага́тий (uk) ( bahátyj )
Vietnamese: dồi dào (vi)
Volapük: bundanik (vo)
Welsh: helaeth (cy)
Zazaki: zaf (diq)
References
^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing) ), “abundant”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co. , →OCLC , page 6.
^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN ), page 8
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002 ), “abundant”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles , 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press , →ISBN , page 10 .
Catalan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin abundantem .
Pronunciation
Adjective
abundant m or f (masculine and feminine plural abundants )
abundant ; plentiful
Derived terms
Further reading
Etymology 2
Verb
abundant
gerund of abundar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French abundant .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /aː.bʏnˈdɑnt/
Hyphenation: abun‧dant
Rhymes: -ɑnt
Adjective
abundant (comparative abundanter , superlative abundantst )
abundant
Declension
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
abundant (strong nominative masculine singular abundanter , comparative abundanter , superlative am abundantesten )
abundant
Declension
Positive forms of abundant
Comparative forms of abundant
Superlative forms of abundant
Further reading
“abundant ” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Latin
Verb
abundant
third-person plural present active indicative of abundō
Old French
Verb
abundant
( Anglo-Norman ) Alternative form of abondant
Romanian
Adjective
abundant m or n (feminine singular abundantă , masculine plural abundanți , feminine and neuter plural abundante )
Obsolete form of abundent .
Declension
References
abundant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN