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  1. adjective Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad fish in the ocean.
  2. adjective Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets: the myriad life of the metropolis.
  3. noun A vast number: the myriads of bees in the hive.

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  • Even her first assignment, driving an archaic and clumsy tractor-waldo across the rotten tropical ice floes, mapping the myriad island chains down there, struggling to avoid being thrown into the brine by Brimstone's violent and chaotic tides while looking for signs of volcanic activity, beat this endless, oppressive nothingness. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • To say that the best interests of science will not be served by further study of the UFO phenomenon--in all its myriad, mysterious manifestations--is to say that science should concern itself only with things humans don't do, as one of the things they do do is report UFOs--even in the face of peer and public ridicule for doing so. —  Omni: March 1995
  • Baseball made it easy with the myriad issues - mostly off the field - that tainted the grand old game. —  The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage
  • What they all seemed to have, however, was gobs and gobs of money from leftist foundations and millionaires who wanted to change the world by supporting one or more of the myriad issues they embrace as their penance for being successful, thanks to capitalism. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • Our extensive how-to guides explore all the myriad issues you may face when bringing your killer idea from your head onto the market. —  Startups | Home
 

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  1. Greek mūrias, mūriad-, ten thousand, from mūrios, countless.

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  1. = French myriade = Portuguese myriada = Italian miriade, from Greek μυριάς; (μυριαδ-), a number of ten thousand, from μυρίος, numberless, countless; as a def. numeral, μύριοι, plural, ten thousand.
 

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/ˈmɪrɪəd/
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