What is "plenty"

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.

Plenty \Plen"ty\, a. Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.
--Shak. (Folio ed.)

Those countries where shrubs are plenty.
--Goldsmith.

mid-13c., "as much as one could desire," from Old French plentee, earlier plentet "abundance, profusion" (12c., Modern French dialectal plenté), from Latin plenitatem (nominative plenitas) "fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary). Meaning "condition of general abundance" is from late 14c. The colloquial adverb meaning "very much" is first attested 1842. Middle English had parallel formation plenteth, from the older Old French form of the word.

a. (label en obsolete) plentiful adv. 1 More than sufficiently. 2 (label en colloquial) (non-gloss definition lang=en Used as an intensifier), very. det. 1 (label en nonstandard) much, enough 2 (label en nonstandard) many n. A more than adequate amount. pron. More than enough.

1. n. a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn: plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude]

2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]

3. adv. as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: enough]

Plenty may refer to:

Places:

• Plenty, Victoria, Australia, a town
• Plenty River (Victoria), Australia
• Plenty River (Northern Territory), Australia
• Plenty, Tasmania, Australia, a small locality and a river
• Plenty, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village
• Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
• Cape Plenty, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Arts and entertainment:

• Plenty (magazine), an environmental culture magazine
• Plenty (play), by David Hare
• Plenty (film), a 1985 film directed by Fred Schepisi, adapted from Hare's play
• Plenty (band), a Japanese rock band
• Plenty (album), a 2010 album by the English band Red Box
• “Plenty”, a song by Sarah McLachlan from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
• Plenty O'Toole, a character in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever

Other uses:

• Plenty International, an outreach program
• Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, the alternate name of the non-fiction book The 100-Mile Diet
• The translated name of Sūrat al-Kawthar in the Qur'an
• Plenty (brand), a brand of paper towel sold in the UK
• Plenty Highway, Australia
• PLENTY (currency), a local currency accepted in Pittsboro, North Carolina

Plenty is a 1985 British drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep. It was adapted from David Hare's play of the same name.

Plenty is the third album from Red Box, and was released on 11 October 2010.

Plenty (stylized as plenty) is a Japanese indie rock band formed in Ibaraki, 2004. The band is currently signed to the Headphone Music Label.

Plenty is a play by David Hare, first performed in 1978, about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs—she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi-occupied France during World War II—and the mundane nature of her present life, as the increasingly depressed wife of a diplomat whose career she has destroyed. Viewing society as morally bankrupt, Susan has become self-absorbed, bored, and destructive — the slow deterioration in her mental health mirrors the crises in the ruling class of post-war Britain.

Susan Traherne's story is told in a non-linear chronology, alternating between her wartime and post-wartime lives, illustrating how youthful dreams rarely are realised and how a person's personal life can affect the outside world.

The PLENTY (Piedmont Local Economy Tender) is a local currency used and accepted in Pittsboro, North Carolina by a growing number of businesses for goods and services. The currency is managed by the PLENTY Currency Cooperative Corporation and is backed by Capital Bank Financial with United States dollars, 10 Plentys may be purchased for $10.00 US. PLENTYs can be traded for goods or services or exchanged for United States Dollars at businesses that accept them.

PLENTY are offered in 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 denomination bills and feature the phrase "In Each Other We Trust". The logo and currency were designed by artist Emma Skurnick and feature illustrations of native plants and animals. Bills are printed locally on bamboo based paper and include anti-counterfeiting features.

Like other local currencies, the PLENTY is legal as they don't too closely resemble United States currency. Transactions conducted with Plenties are taxed just as transactions in United States Dollars.