Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs . . . and fireworks galore” ( Anne Armstrong).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sufficiently; abundantly; in plenty. It is often used with the force of a predicate adjective.
Wiktionary
- adj. In abundance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. existing in abundance
- adj. in great numbers
Etymologies
- From Irish go leor and Scottish Gaelic gu leòr, gu leòir, "enough, plenty", "till sufficiency, till plenty, till clarity'" (leor is the dative of léir "sufficiency, plenty, clarity"). (Wiktionary)
- Irish Gaelic go leór, enough : go, adv. particle + leór, enough (from Old Irish lour, alteration of roar). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I've been sent interview questions galore from a number of othe blogs and have been coordinating all sorts of contests and giveaways.”
“Graham of the obstructionist party who has no plan, who has had no plan other than tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of those same rich, and wars galore, is accusing the Obama administration of doing a terrible job running the country.”
“We had boxes galore from the move, so his 3-story, open floor-plan house is sitting in the living room.”
“P.S. As for other posts generating more hits, well, American Idol generates phone calls galore, while the McGlaughlin Group has a tiny audience.”
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“Thence we removed to a city called Al – Karkh496 where we sold and bought and made gain galore and amassed of wealth great store.’”
“In addition to tracking the salmonella outbreak associated with peanut butter that has sickened more than 430 people in 43 states, there have been recalls galore -- 14 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission alone.”
“There had been calls galore for the inspector, she reported.”
“There are warning labels galore, horrid pictures to boot on cigarette packages yet people still smoke.”
“The 27-year-old Maharashtrian, who claims to be an established actor in Hollywood, has been receiving calls galore for his enthralling performance in the hit movie.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘galore’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
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[Open] Excellent Potential Cat Names
Please use the lowercase form of words that don’t usually appear as proper names (unless the word should be capitalized for other reasons). Words that are used primarily or exclusively as names (e...
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sophasaurus's list
tactile, facilitate, optimum, balk, release, drastic, galore, corrosive, bedevilments, fierce, deliberate, potential and 13 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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Daily
Daily Vocab List
lull, pious, lurid, objurgate, insurgent, lewd, patio, onus, lampoon, geisha, larceny, maim and 206 more...
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mccaff's Words
schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
des mots français & d'autres anglaisà gogo, tchétchène, faciès, déviant, gamin, superette, grigri, diantre, in jeopardy, syncope, primrose, menthe and 92 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for galore.
seanahan Let's not even get into the Bond female villain. Oct 18, 2007
sionnach c_b: that's exactly right - go leor is an Irish phrase meaning "plentiful" or "abundant".
The expression maith go leor, meaning roughly "fair enough", is a common conversational gapfiller in Irish English.
I don't know how to type phonetically, but "maith" is pronounced like "moll" without the finishing "ll". Oct 18, 2007
reesetee Wordie: words galore! :-) Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear from "go leor," which I forget the exact definition of--I think it's "a lot of" or something close to that, but unlike the English "many" or "much," "go leor" is used after the noun in question. Oct 18, 2007
brtom After liquids came solids. Cold joints galore and mince pies.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10 Jan 6, 2007