Plenty vs. Several

A more-than-adequate amount.

Example: ‘We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.’;

More than enough.

Example: ‘I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.’;

More than sufficiently.

Example: ‘This office is plenty big enough for our needs.’;

(colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.

Example: ‘She was plenty mad at him.’;

(nonstandard) much, enough

Example: ‘There'll be plenty time later for that’;

(nonstandard) many

Example: ‘Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.’;

(obsolete) plentiful

Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.

Example: ‘Houses of office stuffed with plentee.’; ‘The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.’;

Plentiful; abundant.

Example: ‘If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.’; ‘Those countries where shrubs are plenty.’;

a full supply;

Example: ‘there was plenty of food for everyone’;

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Example: ‘a batch of letters’; ‘a deal of trouble’; ‘a lot of money’; ‘he made a mint on the stock market’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

as much as necessary;

Example: ‘Have I eaten enough?’; ‘I've had plenty, thanks’;

(obsolete) Separate, distinct; particular.

A number of different; various. (Now merged into later senses, below)

Consisting of a number more than two but not very many; diverse.

By itself; severally.

(obsolete) An area of land in private ownership (as opposed to common land).

Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. en

(archaic) An enclosed or separate place; enclosure. en

(archaic) A woman's loose outer garment, capable of being worn as a shawl, or in other forms.

Separate; distinct; particular; single.

Example: ‘Each several ship a victory did gain.’; ‘Each might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand.’;

Diverse; different; various.

Example: ‘Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished.’; ‘Four several armies to the field are led.’;

Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.

By itself; severally.

Example: ‘Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses.’;

Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual.

Example: ‘There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals.’;

Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.

Example: ‘Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them.’;

An inclosed or separate place; inclosure.

Example: ‘They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation.’;

considered individually;

Example: ‘the respective club members’; ‘specialists in their several fields’; ‘the various reports all agreed’;

distinct and individual;

Example: ‘three several times’;

(used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many;

Example: ‘several letters came in the mail’; ‘several people were injured in the accident’;