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# myriad

«myriad» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very great number, far more than anyone could count: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a myriad, myriads); adjective (myriad lights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A myriad is a very great number, far more than anyone could count: a myriad of stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/#m1)

2) (old use) «Myriad» can also mean countless, very many: myriad lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a huge crowd or swarm of small things, such as gnats, flies or lights; it stands for a number too large to count, not an exact amount

### examples

- There were myriads of gnats dancing over the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/#x1)
- The palace glowed with myriad lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/#x2)
- A myriad of stars filled the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/#x3)

### note

«a myriad» is not an exact count, so never use it as a sum or answer; in old Greek it meant ten thousand, but in stories it means countless.

### In the corpora

- [The chariots of God are myriads, even thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in holiness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1108/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «myriad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myriad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.