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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
galore
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the flea market, there were quilts, furniture, and books galore.
▪ Lots of fun for the kids! Rides and games galore!
▪ There are bargains galore in our summer sale.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Great visuals, great performances, great soundtrack, plus cameos galore.
▪ He fitted her out with catalogues galore.
▪ Here, there were Tories, children, animals - and photo-opportunities - galore.
▪ I hope that you are all now inspired to knit jackets and cardigans galore just to practice buttonholes.
▪ The company had had data galore.
▪ The sandy beach of Magalluf boasting a variety of watersports and bars galore is only 600 metres away.
▪ There are also chair lifts galore.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galore

Galore \Ga*lore"\, n. & a. [Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu le[`o]r, enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + le[`o]r, le[`o]ir, enough; or fr. Ir. goleor, the same word.] Plenty; abundance; in abundance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
galore

1670s, from Irish go leór, and equivalent Scottish Gaelic gu leóir "sufficiently, enough," from Old Irish roar "enough," from Proto-Celtic *ro-wero- "sufficiency." The particle go/gu usually means "to," but it also is affixed to adjectives to form adverbs, as here. Often used in English with the force of a predicate adjective.

Wiktionary
galore

a. In abundance.

WordNet
galore
  1. adj. in great numbers; "daffodils galore" [syn: galore(ip)]

  2. existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore" [syn: abounding, galore(ip)]

Wikipedia
Galore (The Cure album)

Galore: The Singles 1987–1997 is the second singles compilation by The Cure. It contains singles from the years 1987–1997. The song "Wrong Number" is the only new song on the album. The model on the album cover is Isabel Caroline Slark.

Galore (Kirsty MacColl album)

Galore is a compilation album released by Kirsty MacColl in 1995. It features material previously released on the albums Desperate Character, Kite, Electric Landlady, and Titanic Days, among other tracks by MacColl, totalling eighteen songs. Some of the tracks differ from their original releases; a couple of songs, such as "Innocence", are alternate takes, while "Miss Otis Regrets" is a different edit that omits the second half, "Just One of Those Things", performed by The Pogues. On release the album peaked at #6, MacColl's highest ever charting album.

Galore

Galore may refer to:

  • Galore (Thumpers album), 2014
  • Galore (novel), a 2009 novel by Michael Crummey
  • Galore (Dragonette album), 2007
  • Galore (Kirsty MacColl album), 1995
  • Galore (The Cure album), 1997
  • Galore (The Primitives album), 1991
  • Galore, New South Wales, a village in Australia
Galore (Dragonette album)

Galore is the debut studio album by Canadian electronic music band Dragonette, released on August 6, 2007 by Mercury Records. The album contains a mix of newly recorded tracks and reworked songs which had featured on their independently released Dragonette EP, which was available through the band's website two years earlier.

Galore (The Primitives album)

Galore is the third studio album by The Primitives. It was the final album recorded by the group in their first existence, as they disbanded shortly after this release. They would not record again until 2010, and would not release another album until 2012's Echoes and Rhymes.

Galore was reissued in an expanded double-CD edition by Cherry Red Records in January 2015.

Galore (novel)

Galore, by Michael Crummey, is a novel published by Doubleday Canada in 2009 and Other Press in 2011, about the discovery of an 18th-century Jonah in a remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, Newfoundland.

Galore (Thumpers album)

Galore is the debut studio album by British duo Thumpers. It was released on February 2014 under Sub Pop Records.

The US release of this album does not contain the title track, having eleven tracks total.

Usage examples of "galore".

He had horns galore, a coat of cloth of gold and a sweet smoky breath coming out of his nostrils so that the women of our island, leaving doughballs and rollingpins, followed after him hanging his bulliness in daisychains.

Alesia, situated in the Circus Maximusa cast of thousands, mock battles galore, an exciting and novel display organized and directed by Maecenas, who demonstrated a rare talent for this sort of activity.

There were slots, card and crap tables, football pools galore, and bootleg lottery and offtrack racing stalls in direct competition with the State of New York.

There were yams, taro, feis, breadfruit, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, pineapples, watermelons, alligator pears, pomegranates, fish, chickens galore crowing and cackling and laying eggs on our decks, and a live pig that squealed infernally and all the time in apprehension of imminent slaughter.

The Pool of Curtius, the sacred trees, Scipio Africanus atop his tall column, the beaks of captured ships mounted on more columns, statues galore on imposing plinths glaring furiously like old Appius Claudius the Blind or looking smugly serene like wily and brilliant old Scaurus Princeps Senatus.

A host of entertainments, food enough to eat to bursting point and take home sackloads to feed every member of the family to bursting point, lion hunts and performing elephants, chariot races galore, every farce and mime known to the Roman stage-and free wheat!

But the advantages made it worth the while—hardly any porkers to bother you, hidey-holes galore, a friendly neighborhood (certainly no pestersome bullyboys!

Pussy Galore said sternly, 'If you set fire to that thing I swear I'll kayo you with my gold brick.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

Surrounded by every luxury -- fish-skeletons galore, Jersey cream in kegs, catnip unlimited -- does she ever think of her simple home and the toads she used to play with in the back garden?

Stripped naked and stashed in the trunk of her Buick Regal, back of the loading dock behind the Stereos Galore in that big shopping center on La Cienega near Sawyer.

You'll find the complete up-to-the-nanosec data on the rigidity of the superimposed lithospheric mantle in your CE-helmet banks, with pull-up graphics galore to assist continuous mental monitoring.

Not having a penny or pot to piss in I nevertheless verily do decree that there be upon the present site where I have placed, what respectable parlance dictates I refer to as my buttocks, an edifice to be erected large enough for the reception of as many incurable accountants, tax collectors, bailiffs, money lenders, solicitors, barristers, judges, and hangmen and gas meter readers, and other odiferous total bollocks as can be collected at any one time at high noon in off the streets of Dublin and without ponces, whores, eunuchs, hetero and homo sexuals galore or golden balls of malt to keep them in contentment, leave them to suffer indefinitely in their continued middle class repression.

Finally, the room had a number of scarred and scarified wooden chairs in it, ranged in a row against the wall, and a wooden table, likewise scarred, likewise scarified, cigarette burns galore scalloping its edges, and likewise back against the wall.

The South is full of temptresses and lusty cowgirls and it has matriarchs galore but few sorceresses.