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Webster 1913 Edition


Myriad

Myr′i-ad

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] numberless, pl. [GREEK] ten thousand: cf. F.
myriade
.]
1.
The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
2.
An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.

Myr′i-ad

,
Adj.
Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number;
as,
myriad
stars
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Myriad

MYR'IAD

,
Noun.
[Gr. extreme, innumerable.]
1.
The number of ten thousand.
2.
An immense number, indefinitely.