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Myriad   /mˈɪriəd/   Listen
noun
Myriad  n.  
1.
The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
2.
An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.


adjective
Myriad  adj.  Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.





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"Myriad" Quotes from Famous Books



... popularity of the Bible, chiefly but not only in Protestant countries, is witnessed by a myriad voices. Probably in all Christian countries in every age it has been the most read book, but in the sixteenth century it added to an unequaled reputation {572} for infallibility the zest of a new discovery. Edward VI demanding the Bible at his coronation, Elizabeth passionately ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... she spoke. As she ended, he stood up with a short laugh and walked across the room to the window. Outside, the immense black prospect of New York, strung with its myriad lines of light, stretched away into the smoky edges of the night. He showed it to her with ...
— Autres Temps... - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... swam slowly past, began to dwindle behind us. A huge half moon. A thinner, smaller quadrant. A tiny crescent, like a silver bar-pin to adorn some lady's breast. And then it was a dot, a point of light indistinguishable among the myriad others hovering in ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... how vainly have they striven! Our myriad hordes with shaft and bow Went from the Eastland, to lay ...
— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus
... from the fountain that played in the middle of the quadrangle and tossed aloft a slender silvery spear of water to break into a myriad gems and so shower down into the broad marble basin. Sakr-el-Bahr washed, as did his followers, and then he went down upon the praying-mat that had been set for him, whilst his corsairs detached their cloaks and spread them upon the ground to ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini


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