Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of many kinds; having many kinds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having many kinds.

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  • adjective Having many kinds.

Etymologies

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Latin multigenerus; multus + genus, generis, kind.

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Examples

  • The story of the Convention has been told so often that only the merest outline is necessary here; those who have not before this read at least one of the numberless reports, would be the last to wish its multigenerous details.

    The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • At last they came to the dingy entrance which led to the long halls and multigenerous stairways of their abiding place.

    Her Weight in Gold George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • I could not think of San Francisco without the trade winds; I could not imagine its strange, incongruous, multigenerous procession marching to any other music.

    Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869

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