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ample English

Meaning ample meaning

What does ample mean?
Definitions in simple English

ample

If there is an ample amount of something, there is enough of it and usually some extra. There'll be ample opportunity to relax, swim and soak up some sun. The design of the ground floor created ample space for a good-sized kitchen. If you describe someone's figure as ample, you mean that they are large in a pleasant or attractive way. ... a young mother with a baby resting against her ample bosom.

ample

more than enough in size or scope or capacity had ample food for the party an ample supply (= copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich) affording an abundant supply had ample food for the party copious provisions food is plentiful a plenteous grape harvest a rich supply (= sizable, sizeable) fairly large a sizable fortune an ample waistline of ample proportions

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Simple sentences

He has ample experience.
There's ample room in the attic.
We have ample food.
We have ample time to catch our train.
As shown above, it is possible to obtain ample profit and customers with truly simple know-how that anyone can do!
There is ample scope for improvement.
This blog post gives us ample information on just how delusional the recording industry really is, and shows why they must be stopped.
Why do you keep saying there's ample time?
Lest the maturing children implement designs trailblazing and unequalled, the ample nipples of their motherland burst with debilitating liquor.

Movie subtitles

Macartney brought with him ample tribute the most advanced scientific instruments, including the finest clocks that England could make.
Ample time to catch the 6:50 to Manchester after all.
Wouldn't that require a great deal of rope? Fortunately, we have an ample supply.
But, Mr. Bullock, you had ample notice.
An ample supply.
Perhaps your company will be ample reward for his. gallantry.
And until I make up my mind, you should find ample diversion here.
Compact, but ample enough.
Everything's onboard, sir, including ample fuel.
You've ample materials.
Of course, you got ample money to buy them with.
I have anticipated this objection and can meet it with ample precedent.
For the faithless, the hopeless, the misery-laden there is time, ample time to engage in one of the other pursuits of men.
Ample, I should think.
Your master's gratitude will be ample reward.
No, I've ample proof that you're not.
You had ample warning to move out.
I have ample protection.
With ample water?
Now the governor of Cuba will have ample evidence. of what my intentions are. And be convinced that I'm the leader of this expedition. Come with me.
Whoever said it, you've given them ample reason to regret such a foolish remark.
You got ample rope now for a hanging.
Until I make up my mind, you should find ample diversion here.
I wish I could have made him understand that many of us feel that to win one of them is ample reward for an entire career.
Oh, yes, yes, ample.
She'll want it at her birthday ball. - It will be finished in ample time.
The ample garden is provided with a state of the art swimming pool.
Compact, but, uh. ample enough.
It should be ample if you are as clever as you say you are.
Ample time.
Airconditioning is ample 60,000 cubic metres of air per.
The planet's atmosphere will give them ample protection.
Which, considering the caliber of your work, is ample payment indeed.
Ample bosoms, yes?
I'd say ample for a regiment.
You've had ample time to decide.

News and current affairs

PRAGUE - Weather conditions around the world this summer have provided ample fodder for the global warming debate.
Compared to 2008-2009, when policymakers had ample space to act, monetary and fiscal authorities are running out of policy bullets (or, more cynically, policy rabbits to pull out of their hats).
The economy did not stagger under the weight of ample benefits or high taxes.
The five-day delay in allowing UN chemical-weapons experts to verify the attack gave Assad's government ample time to conceal incriminating evidence, allow it to degrade, or destroy it with further shelling.
This year will afford us ample opportunity to examine the black swans that are already among us, and to prepare for the arrival of even more.
The fact that the green revolution never came to the world's poorest continent, where agricultural productivity is just one-third the level in Asia, suggests that there is ample room for improvement.
Whether by misreporting imports and exports or exploiting corrupt government officials (which China has in ample supply), private capital eventually starts finding its way around the controls if the incentives are strong enough.
There is an ample and cheap supply of coal for several centuries.
The philosopher Karl Popper had ample reason to propose a precise definition of democracy.
The most reliable path to stable democracy is robust and equitable economic progress over an ample period of time.
If, on the other hand, the fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply while there is ample demand, then prices will rise as quantities fall.
After the outbreak of turbulence in financial markets last year, the European Central Bank immediately provided ample liquidity to calm the situation, and has continued to do so ever since.
Yugoslavia's wars of the past decade provide ample warnings as to what may happen when a federal system is torn apart by resentment.
Americans eat more often in restaurants, make ample use of laundry, dry-cleaning, and shopping services, and hire nannies to take care of young infants.
It is telling that Ashton has made progress exclusively in areas defined by ample consensus, such as the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program and the pact between Kosovo and Serbia.
These may look like negative reasons for the EU to engage with the SCO, but there are also ample positive reasons for encouraging cooperation.
There is also ample scope for monetary easing; unlike central banks in the West, the People's Bank of China has plenty of ammunition in reserve.
Household income must rise, and, with more ample provision of social security, insurance, and services, precautionary savings should fall.
Moreover, unlike the West, which has used up most of its traditional countercyclical policy ammunition, China has maintained ample scope for fiscal and monetary-policy adjustments as circumstances dictate.
As a member of the World Trade Organization, the US has ample opportunity to use that body's dispute-resolution mechanism to adjudicate major problems with its trading partners.
But this shouldn't be a threat at all, because the world has ample reserves of these elements.
It has set for itself a concrete territorial goal, and has ample financing, sophisticated weapons, and a highly competent military command.
Commodity export prices are at record levels, global liquidity has been ample, and international interest rates have been low.
Both issues sound simpler than they are: the devil is in the details, and the details leave ample scope for disagreement over the definition, monitoring, and enforcement of terms.
Ample evidence demonstrates that no country has ever been able to develop a strong and fair economy based on mineral or oil exports.
For 30 years, East Asians have received the ample rewards of Adam Smith's insight that free trade would bring material benefits to participating countries.
And ample spending on research and development, together with an unrelenting drive to be at the forefront of technological innovation, implies a brisk pace of innovation.

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