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abondance

n.
C2 Proficiency abon·dance

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.


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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