abondance
English
Noun
abondance (plural abondances)
- (card games) Alternative form of abundance[1]
- 1976, Edu-Games (U.K.) (publisher), Games & Puzzles[1], numbers 44-55, page 32:
- with an abondance 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.
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abondance”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French abondance, from Latin abundantia.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: abon‧dan‧ce
Noun
abondance f (plural abondances)
Related terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abundantia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s/
Audio: (file) Audio (Paris): (file)
Noun
abondance f (plural abondances)
- a large amount; a plethora or profusion
- Abondance de biens ne nuit pas. ― Store is no sore.
- wealth of goods, abundance; opulence, prosperity
- (sciences) abundance
Usage notes
- When meaning "a large amount", abondance serves as a quantifier and requires a complement with de
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: abondance
Further reading
- “abondance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin abundantia.
Noun
abondance f (plural abondances)
- abundance (plentiful amount)
Old French
Alternative forms
- abondanche, abundance, habondanche, habundanche, habundance
Etymology
From Latin abundantia.
Noun
abondance oblique singular, f (oblique plural abondances, nominative singular abondance, nominative plural abondances)
- abundance (plentiful amount)