Definizione monolingua

myriad

myriad (plural myriads)

1. (now historical) Ten thousand; 10,000. [from mid-16th c.]
2. A countless number or multitude (of specified things).

   Earth hosts a myriad of animals.

myriad (not comparable)

1. Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 131:

     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 [...].

   • 2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, ""Researchers at Washington U. have itch to cure problem"", West End Word, volume 40, number 7, page 8:

     ""As a clinician, its a difficult symptom to treat,"" Cornelius said. ""The end symptom may be the same, but whats causing it may be myriad.""

2. Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.
   • 2009, Wikipedia:Hu?:

     Roughly along the Perfume River from Hu? lie myriad other monuments.

Definizione dizionario myriad

innumerevole

miriade

Altri significati:

great in number

A countless number or multitude (of specified things).

ten thousand

(now historical) Ten thousand; 10,000. [from mid-16th c.]

Big undetermined number.

Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.

10,000,000

Ten to the power of four.

vast diversity or number

Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.