"ample" meaning in English

See ample in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈæm.pəl/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-ample.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ample.wav , en-au-ample.ogg Forms: ampler [comparative], amplest [superlative]
Rhymes: -æmpəl Etymology: From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ample}} Middle English ample, {{der|en|frm|ample}} Middle French ample, {{der|en|la|amplus||large}} Latin amplus (“large”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)
  1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended. Translations (large; great in size): լայն (layn) (Armenian), ընդարձակ (əndarjak) (Armenian), обширен (obširen) (Bulgarian), просторен (prostoren) (Bulgarian), dostatečný (Czech), hojný (Czech), bohatý (Czech), široký (Czech), stor (Danish), vid (Danish), ampleksa (Esperanto), tilava (Finnish), iso (Finnish), suuri (Finnish), ample (French), amplo (Galician), groß (German), umfangreich (German), ampla (Ido), ampio (Italian), magnus (Latin), کافی (Persian), فراوان (Persian), فراخ (farâx) (Persian), duży (Polish), obszerny (Polish), amplo (Portuguese), amplu (Romanian), огро́мный (ogrómnyj) (Russian), обши́рный (obšírnyj) (Russian), просто́рный (prostórnyj) (Russian), amplio (Spanish), extenso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ample-en-adj-vOg6s44t Categories (other): Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 26 34 2 2 1 3 1 31 Disambiguation of 'large; great in size': 100 0
  2. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive Translations (not contracted or brief; not concise): լայնածավալ (laynacaval) (Armenian), rozsáhlý (Czech), fyldig (Danish), laaja (Finnish), pitkä (Finnish), longo (Galician), fyldig (Norwegian), fyllig (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ampleness, semiample Related terms: amplifiable, amplification, amplificatory, amplifier, amplify, amplitude

Determiner

IPA: /ˈæm.pəl/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-ample.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ample.wav , en-au-ample.ogg
Rhymes: -æmpəl Etymology: From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ample}} Middle English ample, {{der|en|frm|ample}} Middle French ample, {{der|en|la|amplus||large}} Latin amplus (“large”) Head templates: {{head|en|determiner|head=}} ample, {{en-det}} ample
  1. A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.
    Sense id: en-ample-en-det-HFO2CKAs
  2. (as pronoun) A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.
    Sense id: en-ample-en-det-YM~Lu9f2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.