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Word: Myriad
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century (in myriad (sense 2 of the noun)): via late Latin from Greek murias, muriad-, from murioi ‘10,000’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈmɪrɪəd
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a countless or extremely great number of people or things
Short Definition:countless number
Examples:- there's a myriad of islands to explore
- myriads of insects danced around the light above my head
Definition:
(chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand
Short Definition:unit of ten thousand
Examples:- the army was organized on a decimal system, up to divisions of 10,000 or myriads
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