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Word

abondance

Phoneticsabon·dance

Definition

n. a very large amount of something, especially food or money. It is an old-fashioned word that people rarely use today.

n. an abundance or great quantity of something, particularly in the context of food or wealth. Archaic in modern usage; primarily found in historical or literary contexts.

Examples

“The land was in abondance after the harvest.”

“The king's treasury was filled with abondance following the successful trade mission to the East.”

“While the term abondance is largely obsolete in contemporary English, it appears in several medieval texts to describe the state of a kingdom where no citizen went hungry.”

Examples

simple

“The land was in abondance after the harvest.”

contextual

“The king's treasury was filled with abondance following the successful trade mission to the East.”

complex

“While the term abondance is largely obsolete in contemporary English, it appears in several medieval texts to describe the state of a kingdom where no citizen went hungry.”

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