Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable.
- adjective Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets.
- noun A large, indefinite number.
- noun Archaic Ten thousand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The number of ten thousand.
- noun An indefinitely great number.
- Numberless; innumerable; multitudinous; manifold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
- noun An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
- adjective Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large indefinite number
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
- adjective too numerous to be counted
Etymologies
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Examples
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To always say more than it intends, to conjure up possibilities that set us off on internal flights of fancy, to gesture beyond itself in myriad ways and to tantalize with the shadows of other stories, hiding in the corners of the most realistic of narratives.
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Akron played 10 players regularly, and in myriad combinations, but kept the chemistry working.
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The lack of strategic bombers manifested itself in myriad problems.
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Entrepreneurial classes are taking off nationwide in myriad versions, said Heather Van Sickle, the executive director of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.
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Are we to perpetually rely on the Courts to twist constitutional doctrines, in myriad ways, with all their resulting sorts of side effects (and benefits, too, no doubt) and absurdities in order to obviate antideluvian laws, particularly those regulating social norms?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” 2010
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A row of semis in myriad colors stretches to infinity.
Exile in Greenville 2010
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They are demanding unbundled media, sold everywhere and in myriad assortments.
Viacom vs. Google/YouTube, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The machine, code-named Blue Waters and set for delivery to the University of Illinois later this year, is the product of work completed in myriad IBM offices around the world.
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Donnellan has worked as director of management and finance, acting director for libraries, and in myriad other positions in the county, and she had been deputy county manager since October 2005.
Arlington's new county manager no stranger to community - or job Christy Goodman 2010
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Entrepreneurial classes are taking off nationwide in myriad versions, said Heather Van Sickle, the executive director of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.
dabrfe commented on the word myriad
"myriad" is not a noun and should not be used as: "A myriad of folks who misuse this word." The proper use is: "Myriad folks misuse this word."
December 2, 2006
angharad commented on the word myriad
Dictionaries are linguistically descriptive. Many wordies are prescriptivist.
December 2, 2006
seanahan commented on the word myriad
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?gwp=13&s=myriad
Read the usage note. Myriad was originally a noun.
December 2, 2006
squareintheteeth commented on the word myriad
I can't see this word and not think of the default Adobe font.
December 19, 2006
chained_bear commented on the word myriad
I can't see this word and not think of "Heathers."
September 26, 2008
Kristianto2010 commented on the word myriad
These properties enable us to process amorphous carbons into a myriad of industrial
products including chemical-reducing agents, carbide-forming reagents,
metallurgical products, cathodic protection.
March 19, 2011
grainy16mm commented on the word myriad
I use myriad almost exclusively as a noun, and can't help but feel I'm in the minority on this. Hearing it as an adjective has always felt strange to me..
June 26, 2012
t1c1 commented on the word myriad
"The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of)..."
December 9, 2012
alexz commented on the word myriad
Greek number for 10,000 - Wolfram Alpha.
March 28, 2013
Logophile77 commented on the word myriad
googology
noun
A number equal to equal to:
10^4
10,000
ten thousand
November 29, 2017
vvector commented on the word myriad
ADJECTIVE
February 7, 2018