what is the dictionary definition to: copious?

Question

The word i am looking for is from the book secret garden.

The word copious is from the secret garden. It is in my school, and if you could please help me find what it is id appretiate it.

Answer 1

You're most likely looking at this sentence in _The Secret Garden_:

"And then forgetting his grandeur he fell to and stuffed himself with buns and drank milk out of the pail in COPIOUS draughts in the manner of any hungry little boy who had been taking unusual exercise and breathing in moorland air and whose breakfast was more than two hours behind him." (p. 255-256 in a copy from 1999)

Copious means an abundance, full of matter, present in large quantity. In the above sentence, this means that the boy took many large swallows (or gulps, maybe) of milk out of the pail.

Answer 2

1. large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
2. having or yielding an abundant supply: a copious larder; a copious harvest.
3. exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words.

Answer 3

co·pi·ous (kō'pē-əs)
adj.
Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See synonyms at plentiful.
Large in quantity; abundant: copious rainfall.
Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: “I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules” (Samuel Johnson).









copious

adjective

Characterized by abundance: abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, generous, heavy, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, substantial, voluminous. See big/small/amount, give/take/reciprocity, rich/poor.



copious
adj
Definition: abundant
Antonyms: lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting


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copious

IN BRIEF: More than enough; plentiful.

The girls took copious notes at the lecture.







The adjective copious has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)
Synonyms: extensive, voluminous


Meaning #2: affording an abundant supply
Synonyms: ample, plenteous, plentiful, rich


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[Middle English, from Latin cōpiōsus, from cōpia, abundance.]

copiously co'pi·ous·ly adv.
copiousness co'pi·ous·ness n.

Answer 4

Copious \Co"pi*ous\, a. [L. copiosus, fr. copia abundance: cf.
F. copieux. See Copy, Opulent.]
Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Ample; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; rich; full;
exuberant; overflowing; full. See Ample.
[1913 Webster]

This is not where I got my answer (I have a desktop dictionary), but keep this site handy:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Answer 5

It means: Abundant

Answer 6

1. produced or existing in large quantities
2. using many words in writing or speech