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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

plenty
     n 1: 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]
     adv : as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is
           nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: enough]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.