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piles

Main Entry:
pile [pahyl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heap, collection
Synonyms: accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, assortment, bank, barrel, buildup, chunk, conglomeration, drift, gob, great deal, hill, hoard, hunk, jumble, lump, mass, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, pack, peck, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, stockpile
Antonyms: ditch, hole
Main Entry: pile
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gather, pack; put on top of another
Synonyms: accumulate, amass, assemble, bank, bunch, collect, crowd, crush, fill, flock, heap, hill, hoard, jam, load, mass, mound, rush, stack, store
Antonyms: dissipate, scatter, separate
Main Entry: many
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abundance; a lot
Synonyms: gobs, heaps, horde, jillion, large numbers, mass, multitude, oodles*, piles, plenty, scads, scores, thousands, throng, tons, umpteen, whole slew
Notes: many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent
many means being one of a large indefinite number; several means of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many
Antonyms: few
Main Entry: oodles
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a lot
Synonyms: abundance, billions, gobs, heaps, large number, loads, lots, many, masses, millions, piles, plenty, scads, thousands, tons, zillions
Main Entry: plenty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: much, abundance
Synonyms: affluence, avalanche, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth
Notes: plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full')
Antonyms: few, lack, little, need, scarcity, want
Main Entry: scads
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large quantity,
Synonyms: bags, barrels, bunches, bundles, gobs, heaps, jillion, large number, loads, lots, many and then some, oodles*, piles, plenty, scores, stacks, tons, zillions
Main Entry: plenitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: plenty
Synonyms: abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenteousness, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth
Notes: plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full')
Main Entry: plenteousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: plenty
Synonyms: abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenitude, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth
Main Entry: accumulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gather or amass something
Synonyms: accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite
Antonyms: disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste
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