galore
[ guh-lawr, -lohr ]
/ gəˈlɔr, -ˈloʊr /
adverb
in abundance; in plentiful amounts: food and drink galore.
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Origin of galore
1660–70; < Irish go leor enough, plenty (Scots Gaelic gu leòr, leòir), equivalent to go, particle forming predicative adjectives and adverbs + leór enough (Old Irish lour)
Words nearby galore
gallygaskins, galofalo, galois theory, galoot, galop, galore, galosh, galoshes, gals., galsworthy, galt
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galore
/ (ɡəˈlɔː) /
determiner
(immediately postpositive) in great numbers or quantitythere were daffodils galore in the park
Word Origin for galore
C17: from Irish Gaelic go leór to sufficiency
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