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Myriad

noun

A large indefinite number.

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand. Synonyms: 10000, ten thousand.

adjective

Too numerous to be counted. Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable. "Countless hours" , "An infinite number of reasons" , "Innumerable difficulties" , "The multitudinous seas" , "Myriad stars" , "Untold thousands"

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"Myriad" Quotes from Famous Books

... lay back on his miniature island and stared up into the sky, trying to sort out all the myriad impressions of life about him. It was then that ...

— Star Born • Andre Norton

... were eerie whisperings of some disturbance in the sky. From the black forest far behind us could be detected faint restless noises, as if a myriad agitated spirits were scurrying hither and thither whipping their wings against the branches. Something more than an ordinary man's size blow was coming out of the southeast, so I tumbled the crew into their boat, charging them ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... horses. There were decent dressing-rooms. There was a green-room, with a wooden, practicable bar running along one end, and a wizened, grizzled, old barman behind it who supplied your wants from the contents of a myriad bottles ranged in perfect order in some obscure nook beneath the counter. They did things in the great manner in the Cirque Rocambeau. It visited none but first-class towns which had open spaces worthy ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... scented. Here a biting wind passed by, Which with subtle sharpness entered Even my bones, whose faintest breath Like the keenest sword-edge cleft me. Here in the profoundest depths Sadly, mournfully lamented Myriad souls, their parents cursing From whose loins they had descended. Such despairing shrieks and cries, Such blaspheming screams were blended, Such atrocious oaths and curses So repeated and incessant, That the very demons ...

— The Purgatory of St. Patrick • Pedro Calderon de la Barca

... rippled by water-fowl; broad stretches of high grass, with thousands of ecstatic wings palpitating above them; hundreds of thousands of white and pink mallows clapping their hands in voiceless rapture, and that amazon queen of the wild flowers, the morning-glory, stretching her myriad lines, lifting up the trumpet and waving her colors, white, azure and pink, with lacings of spider's web, heavy with pearls and diamonds—the gifts of the summer night. The crew of the Pique-en-terre saw all these and felt them; for, ...

— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

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