ample

From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”), probably for ambiplus (“full on both sides”), the last syllable akin to Latin plenus (“full”).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.pəl/

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• Rhymes: -æmpəl

ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)

1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.

   an ample house

2. Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty

   an ample amount

   an ample supply of water

   ample time

   ample material

   ample numbers

   ample space

   ample wealth

3. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

   an ample story

• full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent
• See also Thesaurus:ample
• (large): See also Thesaurus:large
• (fully sufficient): See also Thesaurus:abundant

• ample in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ample in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Maple, Palme, maple, pelma

ample (feminine ampla, masculine and feminine plural amples)

1. wide
2. ample, plentiful

• amplada

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃pl/

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ample (plural amples)

1. plentiful, abundant, copious, profuse, ample

• “ample” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

ample

1. vocative masculine singular of amplus

• ample in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ample in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• emple

Borrowed from Middle French ample, from Old French ample, from Latin amplus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈampəl/

ample

1. (Late Middle English) ample, copious, profuse

• amplifiyen

• English: ample
• Scots: ample

• “ample (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-04.