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pleth·o·ra

(plĕth′ər-ə)

1. An abundance or excess of something: "[the pitcher's] sinker that clocks in the low nineties ... resulting in a plethora of weakly hit groundballs" (Buzz Bissinger).

2. An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.

[Late Latin plēthōra, from Greek, from plēthein, to be full; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]

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plethora

(ˈplɛθərə)

1. superfluity or excess; overabundance

2. (Pathology) pathol obsolete a condition caused by dilation of superficial blood vessels, characterized esp by a reddish face

[C16: via Medieval Latin from Greek plēthōrē fullness, from plēthein to grow full]

plethoric adj

pleˈthorically adv

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pleth•o•ra

(ˈplɛθ ər ə)

n.

1. overabundance; excess.

2. a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.

[1535–45; < New Latin < Greek plēthṓra fullness]

Plethora

an overfullness; repetition or excess.

Examples: plethora of capital, 1835; of Greeks, 1983; of words, 1868; of work.

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Noun

plethora - extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"

overplus, superfluity, embarrassment

excessiveness, inordinateness, excess - immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

redundance, redundancy - the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"

plethora

noun excess, surplus, glut, profusion, surfeit, overabundance, superabundance, superfluity A plethora of books have been written on the subject.
lack, shortage, deficiency, want, scarcity, dearth

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plethora

noun

A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate:

embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit.

Translations

pléthore

afflusso di sangue eccesso pletora

plethora

[ˈpleθərə] N → plétora f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

plethora

[ˈplɛθərə] n → pléthore f
a plethora of → une pléthore de

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

plethora

n (form) → Fülle f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

plethora

[ˈplɛθərə] n → pletora, sovrabbondanza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pleth·o·ra

n. plétora, exceso de cualquiera de los líquidos del organismo.

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Since the Paris days Hayward had immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about.

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The mind of man can scarce conceive the plethora of carnivorous life in this lost world; and their prey, of course, is even more abundant.

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All this plethora of sight, and feeling, and thought occurred on the instant.

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"Them hunters is the wicked boys," he broke forth again, for he suffered from a constitutional plethora of speech.

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Nations that do not snore and gurgle helplessly in paroxysms of plethora upon beds of formality and red tape!

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The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.

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Glancing at such of these articles as were visible in the shining of the blaze, and the less cheerful radiance of two smoky lamps which burnt but dimly in the shop itself, as though its plethora sat heavy on their lungs; and glancing, then, at one of the two faces by the parlour-fire; Trotty had small difficulty in recognising in the stout old lady, Mrs.

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