Sentence:  The city was a center of manufacture , especially in textiles , and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings , a residence for <WSD>many</WSD> owners of the great industries in north Alabama . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number