bounty
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈbaʊnti/
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abundancia
- We want to share the bounty and get people excited about eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
- creation's bounty
- bounty of the earth
- nature's bounty
And this, as he says, this is a bounty that he's been treated to.
- And this, as he says, this is a bounty that he's been treated to.
- I mean, it was just this bounty always in our backyard.
- Her own grandparents could scarcely imagine the bounty of nutrition at her fingertips.
- It's OK, this is never easy, but it's the only way to be blessed with a bounty of beautiful landscapes.
- And, you know, as one would do when they luck into, you know, bit of bounty like that threw in the trunk of his car.
- We want to share the bounty and get people excited about eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
- That's the kind of people you need to surround yourself with where it never enters their head to be resentful or anything other than sharing in your bounty.
- And we're all very well fed because the crops were bounty all over the Earth.
Examples
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Their eyes were on the food, such bounty as they'd never seen before.
Fiction book (1991) -
At night, the locals celebrate the end of each day with a feast of the sea's bounty, and they sing folk songs under a sky where I swear you can see a billion stars.
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We have the bounty of the sea surrounding us.
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I mean, it was just this bounty always in our backyard.
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Another is about the bounty of medicines that nature has to offer us.
Academic text (2002) -
Resources are finite; even the earth's great bounty has limits.
Academic text (2011) -
There's such a bounty of natural beauty and excellent crabs, among many, many other things.
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Our villagers have prepared a bounty of food and drink to show their fealty and gratitude at your arrival.
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Locals prepare elaborate meals by harvesting the jungle's bounty, especially wild cacao.
Academic text (2008) -
The garden has given us a bounty of vegetables to put up for the winter.
Synonyms
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1.0
Giving something to someone without payment or expecting something back
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1.9
A large amount of useful things or ideas that someone has
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7.3
A large amount of good things, often food or gifts
Willingness to give freely and a lot to others
Antonyms
Compounds
How Abundant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bounty comes from an old word for 'good' (bonus, like English bonus). It was also used for 'good' gifts from the earth, so a bounty is a large, generous supply of food or crops after a good season.