plateful

[ pleyt-fool ]

/ ˈpleɪt fʊl /

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noun, plural plate·fuls.

the amount that a plate will hold.

a large portion or quantity: a plateful of contracts to negotiate.

Origin of plateful

First recorded in 1760–70; plate¹ + -ful

usage note for plateful

See -ful.

Words nearby plateful

Plateau's problem, plate block, plate culture, plated, plate-dog, plateful, plate girder, plate glass, plateholder, platelayer, platelet

Example sentences from the Web for plateful

But as we laid waste to the plateful, we loved them more and more.
The Hunt for New Orleans’s Secret Dish|Jane & Michael Stern|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The servant returned to us, bringing with him a tiny bottle of champagne and a plateful of delicate little sugared biscuits.
The Law and the Lady|Wilkie Collins
Pere Grandet returned from the garden with the fruit and arranged a plateful on the kitchen-table.
Eugenie Grandet|Honore de Balzac
Plateful after plateful of stewed meat and potatoes, steaming and savoury, disappeared.
Our Casualty And Other Stories|James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham

Diantha set the plateful on the table, puffy, brown, and crisply crusted.
What Diantha Did|Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The iced soda-cake was of her making, and so was the plateful of delicious treacle toffee.
A Fortunate Term|Angela Brazil