ampleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From late 中期英語 ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”).

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæm.pəl/
• 韻: -æmpəl

限定詞

ample

1. A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.

   We have ample time to finish the task.

   It is a large house with ample space for all of us.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book II)‎:

     …a broad and ample road, whose dust is gold…

   • 1862, Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints:

     …a line of wooden troughs supplies ample water for irrigation.

   • 1911, Various (ed. Hugh Chisholm), 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Article on Sweden:

     …possesses an ample supply of water-power for industrial purposes.

2. (as pronoun) A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.

   We don't need any more. We already have ample.

形容詞

ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)

1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.

   We have an ample supply of water

   She has a very ample bosom.

2. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

   an ample story

同意語

• full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent
• See also Thesaurus:ample
• (large): See also Thesaurus:large
• (fully sufficient): See also Thesaurus:abundant

派生語

関連する語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ample”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ample”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Mapel, Maple, Palme, maple, pelma

語源

Borrowed from Middle French ample, from Old French ample, from Latin amplus.

発音

• IPA: /ˈampəl/, /ˈɛmpəl/

形容詞

ample

1. (Late Middle English) ample, copious, profuse

関連する語

• amplifiyen

派生した語

• English: ample
• Scots: ample

参照

• “ample, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 October 2018.

副詞

amplē (comparative amplius, superlative amplissimē)

1. amply, largely

語源 2

形容詞

ample

1. vocative masculine singular of amplus

参照

• “ample”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ample”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers