请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 abounder
释义

abounder

English

Etymology

abound + -er

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊn.dɚ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbaʊn.dɚ/

Noun

abounder (plural abounders)

  1. One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something). [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
    • 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,
      Say, ye strangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! what will he do, when he finds himself still subsisting in a state, where none of those Pleasures, for which alone he wished to subsist, can possibly any longer subsist with him?
    • 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights” in Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, p. 81,
      Wanters, abounders,
      March, in gay mixture,
      Men, my surrounders!
      I am the fixture.
    • 1895, William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (translators), The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, London: Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, 1898, Part 16, p. 58,
      Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches
      And were fain of their fill.

References

  1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abounder”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

Anagrams

  • Euroband, be around
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/7/12 2:27:48