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plethora
[ pleth-er-uh ]
noun
- overabundance; excess:
His crisis brought him a plethora of advice and an almost complete lack of assistance.
- a large quantity or wide array; a lot:
The co-op program offers a plethora of advantages for students.
Visitors are drawn to the main beach, where a plethora of watersports can be enjoyed.
- Pathology Archaic. a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.
plethora
/ ˈplɛθərə; plɛˈθɒrɪk /
noun
- superfluity or excess; overabundance
- obsolete.pathol a condition caused by dilation of superficial blood vessels, characterized esp by a reddish face
Derived Forms
- pleˈthorically, adverb
- plethoric, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of plethora1
Word History and Origins
Origin of plethora1
Example Sentences
As a plethora of potential customers is redirected to your website, you’ll reap the benefits of high traffic for your local business.
The brothers started the company in a niche digital lending market, but now, the company offers a plethora of services from savings to payments and investments.
If you’re looking for a way to feel more centered these days, one of the best things you can do is to take up a mindfulness practice—and there’s a plethora of apps eager to help in exchange for your downloads and dollars.
With a plethora of outdoor adventures to explore and a cozy indoor setting with roaring fires, we feel that we’re well-positioned and prepared to give guests that perfect Midwest getaway.
It’s also led to a lot of confusion about how and where they can watch TV shows among the plethora of platforms and services.
There should be a plethora of four-letter words flying around the Veep set this morning.
Where there was a plethora of strong women, instead of just, like, Kristen Wiig doing every sketch each week.
Like the best pop stars, Swift has borrowed from a plethora of genres and influences.
Within hours of the pictures ending up online, a plethora of articles were written.
During the mid-to-late 1980s, he went on an absolute tear, helming a plethora of irresistible entertainments.
Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
The army of Spain would seem to suffer from a plethora of officers, especially those of the highest rank.
And, even in such a plethora of massacres, it is strange they should have suffered such neglect.
Justinian, it may be noted, had equipped this army with such a plethora of commanders that their defeat can hardly cause surprise.
Gold, in the midst of its sudden plethora, was a perplexing problem to the financial prophets of a third of a century ago.
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