Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   plethora

   /ˈplɛθ(ə)rə/

   noun

   • 1. a large or excessive amount of something: "a plethora of committees and subcommittees"
   • 2. an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek plēthōrē, from plēthein ‘be full’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • P

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points