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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]
(noun)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Myriad : \Myr"i*ad\, a.
Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as,
myriad stars.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely
large number.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Myriad : Myriad: A great number, a very large number, a huge number of something.
There are, for example, myriad ways in which syphilis can present; it is the great imitator.
"Myriad" is a Greek word for 10,000 (ten thousand).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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