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Definition

present in great quantity

Farmers in the region enjoy good soil, moderate temperatures, and an abundant supply of water.

abundant = present in great quantity

abundantly = extremely (with more than is needed)

abundant = present in great quantity

I caught nothing the whole day, not even in the late afternoon, when marine life appeared in abundance.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

abundance = large amount or quantity

When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma

abundant = present in great quantity

My mama said the Hardbines had kids just about as fast as they could fall down the well and drown. This must not have been entirely true, since they were abundant in Pittman County and many survived to adulthood.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

abundant = present in great quantity

The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard— a "swept" yard that was never swept— where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

abundance = large amounts

Samuel married them, of course, and all the people left in the compound came to wish them happiness and an abundance of roofleaf forever.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

abundance = large amount or quantity

... and the shops that line the High Street and the abundance of things that fill the windows there and...
David Almond -- Clay

abundance = large quantity

I hesitated, and then, as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

abundant = present in great quantity

the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance.
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

abundance = great quantities

He would not believe that the Jesus Bible, with its absolutely ... abundance of words, gave no specific instructions to mothers of newborn twins.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

abundance = large quantity

It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

abundance = a large quantity (of good things)

Her hair is of an agreeable brown, but not particularly abundant.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

abundant = present in great quantity

The glass men and women settled into Elinor's attic, and the trolls dug caves among the big old trees that grew in abundance in Elinor's garden.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
Dallas, unconscious of what was going on in his father's mind, was talking excitedly and abundantly of Versailles.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
But if he was awake, then oh Christ of the abundant mercy, be with him.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
He pressed his face to the water and saw immediately that the sea was clear and the coral abundant.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
In the first place, he was almost brainless; in the second he had an abundance of feeling.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
She grieved with an abundance of speech, as peasants do, neither distracted nor embarrassed by strangers.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

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