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/ˈplɛθəɹə/ · noun
(usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance..
The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises! El Guapo: How many piñatas? Jefe: Many piñatas, many! El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas? Jefe: A what? El Guapo: A plethora.
I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.
Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.
The story of the woodhen is one outstanding conservation triumph in a plethora of tragedy.
[Y]our Character at Present is like a Person in a Plethora, absolutely dying of too much Health—
The food necessary for the maintenance of his dog, a bull-terrier, in the condition of ferocious plethora to which it was accustomed, he generously declared himself willing to pay for out of his own pocket, […]
Use plethora when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plethora means (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance..
Common synonyms include glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
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