Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, a.
Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as,
myriad stars.
[1913 Webster] Myriagram
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely
large number.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
myriad
adj : too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches";
"countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons";
"innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite,
innumerable, innumerous, myriad(a), multitudinous,
numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered,
unnumerable]
n 1: a large indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details"
2: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one
thousand [syn: ten thousand, 10000]
WordNet (r) 2.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "myriad":
G, M, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion,
a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, abundance, affluence,
ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, billion,
bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, chiliad,
chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, considerable,
copiousness, ever so many, extravagance, exuberance, fertility,
flood, flow, foison, full many, full measure, fullness, generosity,
generousness, grand, great abundance, great plenty, gush,
heaped-up, jillion, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz,
kiloliter, kilometer, lakh, landslide, lavishness, liberality,
liberalness, lots, luxuriance, many, maximum, millennium,
millepede, milligram, milliliter, million, more than enough, much,
multifarious, multifold, multiple, multitudinal, multitudinous,
myriads, no few, not a few, numerous, numerousness,
one hundred thousand, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow,
plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, prevalence,
prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities,
quite some, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein,
richness, riot, riotousness, scads, shower, spate, stream,
substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, teemingness,
ten thousand, thou, thousand, very many, wealth, yard, zillion
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
0, countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad(a), numberless, ten thousand, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
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