plethora — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An excessive amount or number; an abundance.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable
   • usually
   • followed by of

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (4)

   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.

   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.

   The story of the woodhen is one outstanding conservation triumph in a plethora of tragedy.

2. Excess of blood in the skin, especially in the face and especially chronically.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   [Y]our Character at Present is like a Person in a Plethora, absolutely dying of too much Health—

   More examples (1)

   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, […]

Noun

1. extreme excess

   Synonyms

   overplussuperfluityembarrassment

   Broader terms

   excessexcessivenessinordinateness

   Examples

   an embarrassment of riches