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Much   /mətʃ/   Listen
Much

adjective
1.
(quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent.  "Much affection" , "Much grain is in storage"
adverb
1.
To a great degree or extent.
2.
Very.
3.
To a very great degree or extent.  Synonyms: a good deal, a great deal, a lot, lots, very much.  "We enjoyed ourselves very much" , "She was very much interested" , "This would help a great deal"
4.
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely.  Synonym: practically.  "Practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god"
5.
Frequently or in great quantities.  Synonyms: a great deal, often.  "I don't travel much"
noun
1.
A great amount or extent.



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"Much" Quotes from Famous Books



... Much of the way this water-course was too broad to permit detailed study of field conditions and crops, even with a glass. In such sections the recent dikes often have the appearance of being built from limestone blocks but a closer view showed them constructed from blocks of the river silt cut ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King
... instructions to Berthier, explaining every move, and setting forth the reasons why Ratisbon had been chosen as headquarters. This would assure control of the Danube, keep open a line of communication, and enable the writer so to control space and time that he could open the campaign much ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... go, I suppose. I'm sorry. I should have liked so much to be of use." She looked up at him appealingly, and sudden tears came and stood in her eyes, and would perhaps have undone his hurt but that he was ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... qualities, as co-existent with entire wickedness in one and the same person. But this likewise is the very circumstance which gives to this strange play its charm and universal interest. Don Juan is, from beginning to end, an intelligible character: as much so as the Satan of Milton. The poet asks only of the reader, what, as a poet, he is privileged to ask: namely, that sort of negative faith in the existence of such a being, which we willingly give to productions professedly ideal, and a disposition to the same state of feeling, as that ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... surmised as much already, and went back as fast as he could ride, while the beat of hoofs grew fainter down the trail. Ten minutes later, he drew bridle close by a man who held a lantern, and saw Sergeant Stimson ...
— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss


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