galore

[ guh-lawr, -lohr ]
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adverb
  1. in abundance; in plentiful amounts:food and drink galore.

Origin of galore

1
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)

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galore

/ (ɡəˈlɔː) /


determiner
  1. (immediately postpositive) in great numbers or quantity: there were daffodils galore in the park

Origin of galore

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C17: from Irish Gaelic go leór to sufficiency

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