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abundant

/əˈbʌn.dənt/ adjective B1
  1. Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. · Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.· an abundant selection of carpets to choose from
  2. Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
  3. Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
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“When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 5 · B2
The Frog that lived in the pond warned his friend to change his residence and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 64 · B2
A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 67 · B2
Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting “cotton warp” quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices--and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 1 · C1

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