Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - plenty

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If there is plenty of something, there is a large amount of it. If there are plenty of things, there are many of them. Plenty is used especially to indicate that there is enough of something, or more than you need. There was still plenty of time to take Jill out for pizza... Most businesses face plenty of competition... Are there plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet? QUANT: QUANT of n-uncount/pl-n • Plenty is also a pronoun. I don’t believe in long interviews. Fifteen minutes is plenty... PRON 2. Plenty is a situation in which people have a lot to eat or a lot of money to live on. (FORMAL) You are all fortunate to be growing up in a time of peace and plenty. N-UNCOUNT 3. You use plenty in front of adjectives or adverbs to emphasize the degree of the quality they are describing. (INFORMAL) The water looked plenty deep... The compartment is plenty big enough... ADV: ADV adj/adv c darkgreen]emphasis