galore

American  

[guh-lawr, -lohr] / gəˈlɔr, -ˈloʊr /

adverb

1. in abundance; in plentiful amounts.

   food and drink galore.

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galore British  

/ ɡəˈlɔː /

determiner

1. (immediately postpositive) in great numbers or quantity

   there were daffodils galore in the park

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Etymology

Origin of galore

1660–70; < Irish go leor enough, plenty ( Scots Gaelic gu leòr, leòir ), equivalent to go, particle forming predicative adjectives and adverbs + leór enough ( Old Irish lour )

Explanation

At a party with more cupcakes than anyone could imagine, you’ll hear guests say, “There are cupcakes galore!” Galore means there’s so much that it’s unbelievable. The Irish phrase go lear literally translates as “to sufficiency.” If there are sufficient enough bananas to build a house with them, you’d say that there are bananas galore. The word is an example of a postpositive adjective, which means it comes after the word it describes. So when you go to a circus and 700 clowns surround you, don’t say “There are galore clowns,” because the correct way to express your terror is this: “There are clowns galore. Help!”

Example Sentences

In other travel news this week, there were obits galore for spunky Spirit Airlines after it went out of business early Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

There have been banners galore, tennis-ball protests, and chants aimed at those on the club's board.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

The shindig included a three-tiered pink cake, pink cocktails garnished with meringue that looked like clouds and balloons galore.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

With his backflips, one-handed cartwheels and quadruple-jumps galore, US figure skater Ilia Malinin's rip-roaring routines have proved a star attraction at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Everybody could remember those days when, even though they had lost much communal land, they had still been allowed permits to run cattle and sheep and goats galore in the National Forest.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols