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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous: many a child; many another day.
  • adj. Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number: many friends.
  • n. A large indefinite number: A good many of the workers had the flu.
  • n. The majority of the people; the masses: "The many fail, the one succeeds” ( Tennyson).
  • pronoun. A large number of persons or things: "For many are called, but few are chosen” ( Matthew 22:14).
  • idiom. as many The same number of: moved three times in as many years.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
  • n. A considerable number.
  • determiner. An indefinite large number of.
  • pronoun. A collective mass of people.
  • pronoun. An indefinite large number of people or things.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A retinue of servants; a household.
  • adj. Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
  • n. The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
  • n. A large or considerable number.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being or consisting of a large number of units or individuals; numerous: often used alone, the noun being understood. See many, n.
  • Being one of a large number; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind: followed by a, an, or another, used distributively. The phrase many a one, so used, was formerly many one without the article.
  • Being of a certain number, large or small; plural (especially in the phrase the many as opposed to the one): after a term of qualification (as, so, too, and especially how in interrogations): often with the qualified noun omitted: as, how many people were there? how many will go? as many as the room will hold; not so many as before; too many men are dishonest.
  • Much.
  • Such a number indefinitely or distributively: as, he took so many of these, and so many of those, and so many of the others.
  • n. A multitude; a great aggregate; specifically, the mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
  • n. A considerable number: with the indefinite article, and followed by of expressed or understood.
  • n. [The phrase a many (as well as a pretty many) is now rare or colloquial; yet a good many and a great many are still in common use.]
  • n. See meiny.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
  • Equivalent
    umpteen    many an    umteen    Manya    numerous    many another    some    legion    galore   
    Antonym
    few    all   
    Cross Reference
    too many    so many    many one    not many   
    Form
    many a    so many    how many   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    household    divers    manifold    numerous    various    multiplied    sundry    frequent    multitudinous    multifold   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beni    Bennie    Benny    Denny    Henie    Jenni    Jennie    Jenny    Kenny    Lenny   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    several    first    most    good    much    hot    bad    little    old    few