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plethora
What does plethora mean?
plethora (noun): extreme excess.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use plethora in a sentence?
- Cats purr for a plethora of reasons. (Tatoeba sentence #10822930 by Amastan, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce plethora?
/ˈplɛθəɹə/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does plethora come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin plēthōra, from Ancient Greek πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “fullness, satiety”), from πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be full”) + -η (-ē, nominal suffix).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a laying waste
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extreme excess
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empty boasting
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a joke or quip
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