ample

From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”).

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

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• Rhymes: -æmpəl

ample

1. A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.

   We have ample time to finish the task.

   It is a large house with ample space for all of us.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book II)‎^[1]:

     …a broad and ample road, whose dust is gold…

   • 1862, Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints:

     …a line of wooden troughs supplies ample water for irrigation.

   • 1911, Various (ed. Hugh Chisholm), 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Article on Sweden:

     …possesses an ample supply of water-power for industrial purposes.

2. (as pronoun) A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.

   We don't need any more. We already have ample.

ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)

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

   We have an ample supply of water

   She has a very ample bosom.

2. 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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ample”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ample”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Mapel, Maple, Palme, maple, pelma

From Latin amplus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈam.plə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈam.ple]

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• Homophone: ampla (Balearic, Central)

ample (feminine ampla, masculine and feminine plural amples)

1. wide
2. ample, plentiful

• amplada
• amplament
• amplària

• ampliar

• “ample”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ample”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “ample” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ample” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French ample, inherited from Latin amplus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃pl/

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ample (plural amples)

1. plentiful, abundant, copious, profuse, ample
2. (of clothes) loose, baggy

• “ample”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

amplē (comparative amplius, superlative amplissimē)

1. amply, largely

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/, /ˈɛmpəl/

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 4 October 2018.