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MYRIAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
Synonyms:
10000; myriad; ten thousand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("myriad" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large indefinite number
Example:
he faced a myriad of details
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("myriad" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Derivation:
myriad (too numerous to be counted)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Too numerous to be counted
Example:
myriad stars
Synonyms:
countless; infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable
Classified under:
Similar:
incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)
Derivation:
myriad (a large indefinite number)
Context examples:
The technology is expected to speed up the process for developing new varieties of potatoes, rice, citrus and other crops that are better equipped to tolerate heat and drought, produce higher yields and resist a myriad of diseases and pests.
(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He was interested in everything, and asked me a myriad questions about the place and its surroundings.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Besides the law of meat, there were a myriad other and lesser laws for him to learn and obey.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He was drunken in new and more profound ways—with Ruth, who had fired him with love and with a glimpse of higher and eternal life; with books, that had set a myriad maggots of desire gnawing in his brain; and with the sense of personal cleanliness he was achieving, that gave him even more superb health than what he had enjoyed and that made his whole body sing with physical well-being.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I kept my eyes fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole myriad of little specks seemed to come blowing in through the broken window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of dust that travellers describe when there is a simoon in the desert.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A myriad laws governed all these things and determined conduct; yet he did not know the speech of the gods, nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She had made love the strongest thing in him, increased its power a myriad per cent with her gift of imagination, and sent him forth into the ephemera to thrill and melt and mate.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Before the sun dipped below the black mass of Kettleness, standing boldly athwart the western sky, its downward way was marked by myriad clouds of every sunset-colour—flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold; with here and there masses not large, but of seemingly absolute blackness, in all sorts of shapes, as well outlined as colossal silhouettes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
