Ample means more than enough, with room to spare. Ample time, ample space, ample evidence.
It is warmer than sufficient and calmer than plenty: ample time to get there means nobody needs to hurry. It sits most naturally with uncountable nouns — ample room, ample opportunity, ample warning. Used of a person's build it means large in a comfortable, old-fashioned and slightly euphemistic way. Note amply, as in amply rewarded; and amplify, which is the same root grown loud.
1adjectiveampleMore than enough, with room to spare.
“There's ample parking behind the hotel, so you won't have trouble finding a space.”
synonyms: plentiful, abundant
ample is a quality of abundance.
Also accepted in games: plenty, plentiful
Latin amplus meant large or spacious. Amplify, amplitude and amplifier all come from it, so an amplifier is literally a thing that makes larger.
Middle English
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English, today
ample
From Middle English ample. From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA