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Grammar : Adj
Spell : guh-lawr, -lohr
Phonetic Transcription : gəˈlɔr, -ˈloʊr



Définition of galore

Origin :
  • 1670s, from Irish go leór, corresponding to Gaelic gu leóir "sufficiently, enough." The particle go/gu usually means "to," but it also is affixed to adjectives to form adverbs, as here.
  • adj in abundance
Example sentences :
  • They's a galore of timber, enough to make all the cities an' towns what'll ever need be made.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Wagon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Many kinds of games were seen upon the way; pastimes they had galore.
  • Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown
  • To that end she had wasted any number of cheap pads and pencils, and had littered her mother's tidy rooms with "sketches" galore.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy » by Evelyn Raymond
  • What keenness of business-discussion mingled with what galore of whisky there is everywhere!
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • The city was filled with excited crowds, torch-light processions, and speaking was galore.
  • Extract from : « Makers and Romance of Alabama History » by B. F. Riley
  • Just purty white and red where it should be; and we had musthard, too, galore, when we wanted it.
  • Extract from : « At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts » by James McLevy
  • France, the greatest country on earth, is singularly poor in the greatest characters—great ones she has galore.
  • Extract from : « Since Czanne » by Clive Bell
  • Wooden churns, troughs for cattle, and agricultural implements were there galore.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • White bread and brown, scones and “cookies” galore, and a flat, round cake of most appetising appearance.
  • Extract from : « Big Game » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
  • It appears fitfully at night, glittering like silver in the water with gold and silver and precious stones hanging to it galore.
  • Extract from : « Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II » by W. P. Haskett Smith

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