abounder
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊndə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊndəɹ/
- Rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: abound‧er
Noun[edit]
abounder (plural abounders)
- Often followed by in: one who abounds in something; one who has plenty. [from mid 18th c.]
- 1755, [Edward Young], “Letter III. On Pleasure.”, in The Centaur Not Fabulous. […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […]; [a]nd R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 168:
- Say, ye ſtrangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! vvhat vvill he do, vvhen he finds himſelf ſtill ſubſiſting in a ſtate, vvhere none of thoſe Pleaſures, for vvhich alone he vviſh'd to ſubſiſt, can poſſibly any longer ſubſiſt vvith him?
- 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights. 2.”, in Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 5, page 81:
- Wanters, abounders, / March, in gay mixture, / Men, my surrounders! / I am the fixture.
- 1895 January, “XVI. Hrothgar Giveth Gifts to Beowulf.”, in William Morris, A[lfred] J[ohn] Wyatt, transl., The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, new edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], published August 1898, →OCLC, page 58:
- Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches / And were fain of their fill.
Further reading[edit]
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abounder”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.