abondance (pluralabondances)
- (card games)Alternative form ofabundance[1]
1976, Edu-Games (U.K.) (publisher),Games & Puzzles[1], numbers44-55, page32:with anabondance already declared against him and lacking the top two hearts, West took it as a fair bet that he must have held ten or eleven trumps, leaving a strong possibility of Ace bare in South's hand.
- ^Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abondance”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 6.
Borrowed fromFrenchabondance, fromLatinabundantia.
abondance f (pluralabondances,nodiminutive)
- abundance
- Synonym:overvloed
Borrowed fromLatinabundantia.
abondance f (pluralabondances)
- a large amount; aplethora orprofusion
- Abondance de biens ne nuit pas. ―Store is no sore.
- wealth ofgoods,abundance;opulence,prosperity
- (sciences)abundance
- When meaning "a large amount",abondance serves as a quantifier and requires a complement withde
FromLatinabundantia.
abondance f (pluralabondances)
- abundance (plentiful amount)
FromLatinabundantia.
abondanceoblique singular, f (oblique pluralabondances,nominative singularabondance,nominative pluralabondances)
- abundance (plentiful amount)
