Plethora vs Zenith - What's the difference?
plethora | zenith |
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
* Jeffrey
(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: . (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
* 1671–1693 : Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook ; printed in:
* 1895 , Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham ,
(astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
* 1719-
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
Highest point or state; peak.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
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As nouns the difference between plethora and zenith
is that plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance while zenith is zenith.plethora
English
Noun
(en noun)- The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Quotations
* 1849 , *: 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. * 1927 , (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction) *: 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.Synonyms
* glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slewSee also
* myriadReferences
* “plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
Pronounced: .
Anagrams
* ----zenith
English
(wikipedia zenith)Noun
(en noun)- The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ?o that in two dayes ?aile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point...
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- In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith .
- ...in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith , the violence of the heat was too great to stir out...
- As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
- I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star.
- It was during those civil troubles this aspiring family reached the zenith .
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