"profusion" meaning in English

See profusion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/ [General-American], /pɹəˈfjuʒən/ [General-American], /pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-profusion.ogg Forms: profusions [plural]
Rhymes: -uːʒən Etymology: From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|profusion}} Middle French profusion, {{der|en|LL.|profusio}} Late Latin profusio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} profusion (countable and uncountable, plural profusions)
  1. abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (abundance): изобилие (izobilie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), profusió [feminine] (Catalan), overvloed [masculine] (Dutch), runsaus (Finnish), ylenpalttisuus (Finnish), yltäkylläisyys (Finnish), Überfluss [masculine] (German), Überfülle [feminine] (German), raidhse [feminine] (Irish), profūsiō [feminine] (Latin), изо́билство (izóbilstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), изоби́лие (izobílie) [neuter] (Macedonian), ranea (Maori), بركت (bereket) (Ottoman Turkish), وفور (vofur) (Persian), Äwafluss [masculine] (Plautdietsch), obfitość [feminine] (Polish), profuziune [feminine] (Romanian), abundență [feminine] (Romanian), изоби́лие (izobílije) [neuter] (Russian), обиље (obilje) [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), profusión [feminine] (Spanish), достаток (dostatok) [masculine] (Ukrainian), багатство (bahatstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), надмірність (nadmirnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (lavish or imprudent expenditure): разкош (razkoš) [masculine] (Bulgarian), разточителност (raztočitelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), törsäys (Finnish), Verschwendung [feminine] (German), Vergeudung [feminine] (German), ра́скош (ráskoš) [masculine] (Macedonian), اسرافکاری (esrâf-kâri) (Persian), extravaganță [feminine] (Romanian), расточительность (rastočitelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ще́дрость (ščédrostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), марнотратність (marnotratnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), щедрість (ščedristʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-profusion-en-noun-xgFgpYvo Disambiguation of 'lavish or imprudent expenditure': 7 93

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        {
          "text": "His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
          "text": "We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:",
          "text": "Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:",
          "text": "Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 18, “Italian pride in a leader's humility”, in The Christian Science Monitor:",
          "text": "Elected leaders face a profusion of mega-pressure points these days – inflation, heat waves, high debt, or the pandemic.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ],
        [
          "profuse",
          "profuse"
        ],
        [
          "cornucopia",
          "cornucopia"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lavish",
          "lavish"
        ],
        [
          "imprudent",
          "imprudent"
        ],
        [
          "expenditure",
          "expenditure"
        ],
        [
          "prodigality",
          "prodigality"
        ],
        [
          "extravagance",
          "extravagance"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɹəˈfjuʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːʒən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izobilie",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изобилие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "profusió"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "overvloed"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "runsaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "ylenpalttisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "yltäkylläisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Überfluss"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Überfülle"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "raidhse"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "profūsiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "izóbilstvo",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изо́билство"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "izobílie",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изоби́лие"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "ranea"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bereket",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "بركت"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "vofur",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "word": "وفور"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Äwafluss"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obfitość"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "profuziune"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "abundență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izobílije",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изоби́лие"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "roman": "obilje",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "обиље"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "profusión"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dostatok",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "достаток"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bahatstvo",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "багатство"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nadmirnistʹ",
      "sense": "abundance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "надмірність"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razkoš",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "разкош"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "raztočitelnost",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "разточителност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "word": "törsäys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verschwendung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vergeudung"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ráskoš",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ра́скош"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "esrâf-kâri",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "word": "اسرافکاری"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "extravaganță"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastočitelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "расточительность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ščédrostʹ",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ще́дрость"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "marnotratnistʹ",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "марнотратність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ščedristʹ",
      "sense": "lavish or imprudent expenditure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "щедрість"
    }
  ],
  "word": "profusion"
}

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