Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing in, characterized by, or producing abundance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of goodness to others; giving or disposed to give freely; free in bestowing gifts; bountiful; generously liberal.
- Characterized by or emanating from bounty; freely bestowed; liberal; plentiful; abundant.
- Synonyms Muniflcent, generous, beneficent, kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person
Inclined to begenerous . - adjective etc.
Liberal orabundant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given or giving freely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Their feasts were events of careful consideration and long preparation, and those whose memories carry them back to the early days, recall bounteous loading of tables when festal occasion called for display.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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Here and there, a village, with its taper steeples, recalled the bounteous Hand "that giveth us all things richly to enjoy."
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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The very name of Canary is a cheerful one, associated as it is with the idea of bounteous vineyards, and of those little golden birds that make music all over the world.
Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849
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My heart leaped at the thought of such an approach to sudden riches, which I considered myself, however contrarily to the laws of computation, as having missed by a single chance; and I could not forbear to revolve the consequences which such as bounteous allotment would have produced, if it had happened to me.
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Scott Keatley—who along with his wife, Gina, a James Beard scholar and Food Network "Extreme Chef" contestant, founded Nourishing NYC, a nonprofit that feeds those in need and maintains one of the garden's more bounteous beds—admitted that he doesn't always run around in a carrot costume; he has someone else do it for him.
A Sunny Plot to Feel Good Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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A penitentiary since 1919, Coiba is now the centerpiece of a bounteous national park, Galápagos-like, with more than 20 endemic bird species.
Strange Paradise 2009
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They are his bounteous source for “Sexual Aberration on Campus America,” his clandestine, surefire, tenure pièce de resistancé.
“Give me fifty words about a Beaver…” Larry Strattner 2011
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Rather, Hezbollah sprang from the resentment of Lebanon's long-oppressed Shiite population, and the bounteous backing of Iran.
The Lessons of the Second Lebanon War Michael Oren 2011
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They are his bounteous source for “Sexual Aberration on Campus America,” his clandestine, surefire, tenure pièce de resistancé.
“Give me fifty words about a Beaver…” Larry Strattner 2011
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I wish that he had made the difficult decision to live within his budget instead of insisting that a fictional future of bounteous budgets was coming again.
Griffin Uses Hand Picked Media Opportunity to Warn of Layoffs - NASA Watch 2009
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