Myriad
adj, noun
adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Ten thousand; 10,000 formal
- 2 the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand wordnet
- 3 Ten thousand; 10,000; Synonym of decamillennium: a period of 10000 years. formal
- 4 a large indefinite number wordnet
- 5 A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
"Earth hosts a myriad of animals."
Adjective
- 1 Multifaceted, having innumerable elements not-comparable
"one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...]."
- 2 Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous not-comparable
"Earth hosts myriad animals."
Adjective
- 1 too numerous to be counted wordnet
Example
More examples"Fans of the original comic had a field day with the myriad continuity issues of the movie adaptation."
Etymology
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
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