Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - myriad
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Myriad
myriad
1. A myriad or myriads of people or things is a very large number or great variety of them. They face a myriad of problems bringing up children... These myriads of fish would be enough to keep any swimmer entranced for hours. QUANT: QUANT of pl-n 2. Myriad means having a large number or great variety. ...British pop and culture in all its myriad forms. = many ADJ: ADJ n
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I. noun Etymology: Greek ~-, myrias, from myrioi countless, ten thousand Date: 1555 1. ten thousand 2. a great number a ~ of ideas Usage: Recent criticism of the use of ~ as a noun, both in the plural form ~s and in the phrase a ~ of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun ~ has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural ~s) and Thoreau (a ~ of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it. II. adjective Date: 1765 1. innumerable those ~ problems; also both numerous and diverse ~ topics 2. having innumerable aspects or elements the ~ activity of the new land — Meridel Le Sueur ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. literary --n. 1 an indefinitely great number. 2 ten thousand. --adj. of an indefinitely great number. Etymology: LL mirias miriad- f. Gk murias -ados f. murioi 10,000 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. noun 1) несметное число, мириады 2) rare десять тысяч 2. adj. бесчисленный, несметный ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj only before noun literary too many to count (Myriad bright stars shone in the sky above.) ~2 n especially literary a very large number of something + of (myriads of small islands) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1555, from M.Fr. myriade, from L.L. myrias (gen. myriadis) "ten thousand," from Gk. myrias (gen. myriados) "ten thousand," from myrios "innumerable, countless." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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