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myriad
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[ adjective ] too numerous to be counted
Examples "incalculable riches" "countless hours" "an infinite number of reasons" "innumerable difficulties" "the multitudinous seas" "myriad stars" "untold thousands" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)For_example , a writer in a recent number of The_Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un English '' ' . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world , it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future , in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a large indefinite number
Examples "he faced a myriad of details" Used in print (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)It was nine o_'_clock in the morning : the hour which , like a spade turning clods of earth , exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain_dormant in the quiet night . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
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