myriad
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μῡρῐ́ος (mūrĭ́os)
Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs)
Ancient Greek μῡρῐᾰ́ς (mūrĭắs)bor.
Late Latin mȳriasbor.
French myriade
English myriad
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”). By surface analysis, myria- + -ad.
Inflected forms:
form: myriads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ten thousand; 10,000
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Ten thousand; 10,000
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
pos: noun
examples: Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers / Matchleſs, but with th' Almighty, and that ſtrife / Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
A myriad of beginnings to her intended discourse darted into her mind; but, as is usual in such cases, she chose the one the very worst suited to her purpose. "I never intend to marry," said she, in a faltering voice.
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]
How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...
His crude additions, especially the inclusion of Herr Barkheimer, turned the collection into something resembling an orgy, complete with a myriad of sex devices.
gloss: Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
"As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
gloss: Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Earth hosts myriad animals.
Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
Related words: tens of thousands
plethora
Derived words: myriaded
permyriad
myriadly
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: magdom
lang: Albanian
word: pafundësi
lang: Amharic
word: እልፍ
lang: Aramaic
word: ܪܒܘܬܐ
roman: rebbūṯā
lang: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
word: רִבּוּתָא
roman: ribbūṯā
lang: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
word: רִבּוֹתָא
roman: ribbōṯā
lang: Armenian
word: բյուր
roman: byur
lang: Azerbaijani
word: saysız-hesabsız
lang: Bulgarian
word: мириа́да
roman: miriáda
lang: Catalan
word: miríada
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 萬 /万
roman: maan⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 萬 /万
roman: wàn
lang: Dutch
word: myriade
lang: Esperanto
word: miriado
lang: Finnish
word: myriadi
lang: French
word: myriade
lang: German
word: Myriade
lang: Greek
word: μυριάδα
roman: myriáda
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μυριάς
roman: muriás
lang: Hebrew
word: רבבה
roman: revava
lang: Hebrew
word: ריבוא
roman: ribo
lang: Italian
word: miriade
lang: Japanese
word: 万
roman: man
lang: Korean
word: 만
roman: man
lang: Latin
word: mȳrias
lang: Malayalam
word: അയുതം
roman: ayutaṁ
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ
roman: tumen
lang: Māori
word: tini
lang: Māori
word: ngahuru mano
lang: Mongolian
word: түм
roman: tüm
lang: Occitan
word: miriada
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: тьма
roman: tĭma
lang: Persian
word: بیور
roman: bivar
lang: Polish
word: miriada
lang: Portuguese
word: miríade
lang: Russian
word: мириа́да
roman: miriáda
lang: Slovak
word: myriada
lang: Spanish
word: miríada
lang: Swedish
word: myriad
lang: Tagalog
word: hindi mabilang
lang: Thai
word: หมื่น
roman: mʉ̀ʉn
lang: Tibetan
word: ཁྲི
roman: khri
lang: Tibetan
word: གཅིག་ཁྲི
roman: gcig khri
lang: Turkish
word: tümen
lang: Ukrainian
word: міріада
roman: miriada
lang: Vietnamese
word: vạn
lang: Vietnamese
word: muôn
lang: Welsh
word: deng mil