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Myriad
adj, noun
Definitions
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
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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
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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