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myri·ad (mir′ē əd)

noun

  1. Archaic ten thousand
  2. any indefinitely large number
  3. a great number of persons or things

Etymology: < Gr myrias (gen. myriados), the number ten thousand < myrios, countless

adjective

  1. of an indefinitely large number; countless; innumerable
  2. of a highly varied nature

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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