Synonyms for galore
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : guh-lawr, -lohr |
| Phonetic Transcription : gəˈlɔr, -ˈloʊr |
Définition of galore
Origin :- 1670s, from Irish go leór, corresponding to Gaelic gu leóir "sufficiently, enough." The particle go/gu usually means "to," but it also is affixed to adjectives to form adverbs, as here.
- adj in abundance
- They's a galore of timber, enough to make all the cities an' towns what'll ever need be made.
- Extract from : « The Lost Wagon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- Many kinds of games were seen upon the way; pastimes they had galore.
- Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown
- To that end she had wasted any number of cheap pads and pencils, and had littered her mother's tidy rooms with "sketches" galore.
- Extract from : « Dorothy » by Evelyn Raymond
- What keenness of business-discussion mingled with what galore of whisky there is everywhere!
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- The city was filled with excited crowds, torch-light processions, and speaking was galore.
- Extract from : « Makers and Romance of Alabama History » by B. F. Riley
- Just purty white and red where it should be; and we had musthard, too, galore, when we wanted it.
- Extract from : « At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts » by James McLevy
- France, the greatest country on earth, is singularly poor in the greatest characters—great ones she has galore.
- Extract from : « Since Czanne » by Clive Bell
- Wooden churns, troughs for cattle, and agricultural implements were there galore.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- White bread and brown, scones and “cookies” galore, and a flat, round cake of most appetising appearance.
- Extract from : « Big Game » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- It appears fitfully at night, glittering like silver in the water with gold and silver and precious stones hanging to it galore.
- Extract from : « Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II » by W. P. Haskett Smith
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