Myriad

Myriad
Myriad Myr"i*ad, a. Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars. [1913 Webster]

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  • myriad — a somewhat literary word meaning ‘an indefinitely great number’ (from a Greek word meaning ‘ten thousand’), is treated like billion and million in relation to a following noun, i.e. you can say either a myriad stars or myriads of stars. A third… …   Modern English usage

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  • myriad — [adj] innumerable countless, endless, gobs*, heaping, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, multiple, multitudinous, no end of*, numberless, thousand and one*, uncounted, untold, variable; concepts 762,781 Ant. calculable, limited, measurable… …   New thesaurus

  • Myriad — Myr i*ad, n. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? numberless, pl. ? ten thousand: cf. F. myriade.] 1. The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things. [1913 Webster] 2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • myriad — I adjective boundless, countless, endless, illimitable, immense, incalculable, inexhaustible, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, limitless, manifold, many, measureless, multitudinous, numberless, numerous, sescenti, sumless, uncountable,… …   Law dictionary

  • myriad — literary ► NOUN 1) (also myriads) an indefinitely great number. 2) (in classical times) a unit of ten thousand. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ innumerable. ORIGIN Greek murias, from murioi 10,000 …   English terms dictionary

  • myriad — [mir′ē əd] n. [< Gr myrias (gen. myriados), the number ten thousand < myrios, countless] 1. Archaic ten thousand 2. any indefinitely large number 3. a great number of persons or things adj. 1. of an indefinitely large number; countless;… …   English World dictionary

  • Myriad — For other uses, see Myriad (disambiguation). Myriad (Ancient Greek: μύριος, μυριάδες (myrios, plural myriades), numberless countless, infinite , is a classical Greek word for the number 10,000. In modern English, the word refers to an unspecified …   Wikipedia

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