Myriad

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, a.
     Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as,
     myriad stars.
     [1913 Webster] Myriagram

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely
        large number.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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