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.
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2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely
large number.
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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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
myriad
adj 1: 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}, {multitudinous},
{myriad}, {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}, {myriad}]
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