Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being ample; largeness; sufficiency; abundance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
ample .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency
- noun the property of impressive largeness in size
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Examples
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Are you really a lean, mean killing machine or does that long, flowing cape hide a certain ampleness in the imperial posterior?
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A 4 x 8 sheet of plywood would hide most of her 'ampleness'.
Latest Articles 2009
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Money will disappear, or be reduced to a very marginal role, only when the need for it has disappeared or reduced to marginal goods, when abundance or rather "ampleness" has been reached for produced goods.
P2P Foundation 2008
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Yet, as she returned, the high pose of head, the level-lidded gaze of her long brown eyes under royal arches of eyebrows, the softly set lines of her small mouth that fairly sang sweetness of kisses after sixty-eight years — all made her the very picture of a chiefess of old Hawaii full-bursting through her ampleness of haole blood.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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The ampleness and attitude of Albert was always going to be the big story this offseason, whether he was svelte or slovenly, fit or completely out of shape and huge -- real big, like, Gulf oil-spill big.
As minicamp approaches, Albert Haynesworth isn't the real story 2010
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Ramiro leaned his ampleness back on his long-suffering horse and laughed.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Said ampleness was apparently not enough cushioning to compensate for speed of descent, and being dragged a few feet, so our tailbone is more than a little bruised.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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They seem as proud of the ampleness of their 'booty' as there ability to shake it.
Barbados Report No 5 Glyn Davies 2008
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I live in a culture that evaluates my every curve, wrinkle, and hair on my head; the size of my lips; the droop of the skin under my upper arms; the breadth of my thighs and hips; the ampleness of my breasts; literally every one of my physical attributes against an emaciated, youth-obsessed, plastic-surgery-altered, impossible standard of beauty.
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Very soon it was clear that the same spirit of ampleness and emotional clarity that animates “Hands Clean” pours off the album.
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