myriad
Use Myriad in a sentence
i noun
1.
a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
2.
ten thousand.
adjective
3.
of an indefinitely great number; innumerable: the myriad stars of a summer night.
4.
having innumerable phases, aspects, variations, etc.: the myriad mind of Shakespeare.
5.
ten thousand.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Related forms
myr·i·ad·ly, adverb
Synonyms
4. countless, boundless, infinite, untold.
4. countless, boundless, infinite, untold.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | innumerable |
| —n | |
| 2. | (also used in plural) a large indefinite number |
| 3. | archaic ten thousand |
| [C16: via Late Latin from Greek murias ten thousand] | |
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Word Origin & History
myriad
1555, from M.Fr. myriade, from L.L. myrias (gen. myriadis) "ten thousand," from Gk. myrias (gen. myriados) "ten thousand," from myrios "innumerable, countless," of unknown origin. Specific use is usually in translations from Gk. or Latin.
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