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galore

[ guh-lawr, -lohr ]
/ gəˈlɔr, -ˈloʊr /
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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)
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British Dictionary definitions for galore

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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