myriad
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French myriade, from Late Latin myrias (genitive of myriadis), from Ancient Greek μυριάδος (myriados), genitive of μυριάς (myrias), “‘number of 10,000’”), from μύριος (myrios), “‘numberless, countless, infinite’”).
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[edit] Adjective
myriad (not comparable)
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- Great in number; innumerable.
- The myriad stars were impossible to count.
- 2009, Wikipedia:Huế:
- Roughly along the Perfume River from Huế lie myriad other monuments.
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great in number
[edit] Noun
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myriad (plural myriads)
- (archaic) Ten thousand.
- A vast diversity or number.
- Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
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ten thousand
vast diversity or number
