Choice vs Plenty - What's the difference?
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An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
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One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
Anything that can be chosen.
The best or most preferable part.
* Milton
Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
Especially good or preferred.
(slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
A more than adequate amount.
* 1798 , (Thomas Malthus), (An Essay on the Principle of Population):
More than sufficiently.
(label) , very.
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(label) much, enough
(label) many
(label) plentiful
* 1597 , Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
* 1836 , The American Gardener's Magazine and Register , volume 2, page 279:
As a noun choice
is an option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.As an adjective choice
is especially good or preferred.As a proper noun plenty is
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(wikipedia choice)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
- The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
- I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection * the cream * See alsoAdjective
(en-adj)- It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
- Choice ! I'm going to the movies.
Synonyms
* (especially good or preferred) prime, prize, quality, selectAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsplenty
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Noun
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty .
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun,Macmillan]or as both a noun and a pronoun.[http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/plenty oxforddictionaries.comHarrap's essential English Dictionary'' (1996)''Heinemann English Dictionary (2001)
Derived terms
* horn of plenty * land of plenty * plenteous * plentifulSynonyms
* abundance * profusionUsage notes
See the notes about the noun.Adverb
(-)- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- She was plenty mad at him.
- Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.
Determiner
(en determiner)- There'll be plenty time later for that
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
Adjective
(en adjective)- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
- Radishes are very plenty . Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; [...]