myriad
noun
[ ˈmɪrɪəd ]
• a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
• "myriads of insects danced around the light above my head"
Similar:
multitude,
a large/great number/quantity,
a lot,
scores,
quantities,
mass,
crowd,
throng,
host,
droves,
horde,
army,
legion,
sea,
swarm,
lots,
loads,
masses,
stacks,
tons,
oodles,
hundreds,
thousands,
millions,
billions,
zillions,
shedload,
slew,
gazillions,
bazillions,
gobs,
swag,
shitload,
assload,
• (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.
• "the army was organized on a decimal system, up to divisions of 10,000 or myriads"
myriad
adjective
• countless or extremely great in number.
• "he gazed at the myriad lights of the city"
Similar:
innumerable,
countless,
infinite,
numberless,
unlimited,
untold,
limitless,
unnumbered,
immeasurable,
multitudinous,
numerous,
manifold,
multiple,
legion,
several,
many,
various,
sundry,
diverse,
multifarious,
divers,
innumerous,
unnumberable,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in myriad (sense 2 of the noun)): via late Latin from Greek murias, muriad-, from murioi ‘10,000’.
