myriad

myriad
myriadly, adv.
/mir"ee euhd/, n.
1. a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
2. ten thousand.
adj.
3. of an indefinitely great number; innumerable: the myriad stars of a summer night.
4. having innumerable phases, aspects, variations, etc.: the myriad mind of Shakespeare.
5. ten thousand.
[1545-55; < Gk myriad- (s. of myriás) ten thousand; see -AD1]
Syn. 4. countless, boundless, infinite, untold.

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