Many

• POS: Definite Article, Noun
• HYPHEN: man=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

Many, n. [See Meine, Mansion.].

 A retinue of servants; a household.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

Many, a. & pron. 

Many a, a large number taken distributively; each one of many. “For thy sake have I shed many a tear.” Shak. “Full many a gem of purest ray serene.” Gray. -- Many one, many a one; many persons. Bk. of Com. Prayer. -- The many, the majority; -- opposed to the few. See Many, n. -- Too many, too numerous; hence, too powerful; as, they are too many for us. L'Estrange.

Syn. -- Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various; divers; sundry.

Many, n. [AS. menigeo, menigo, menio, multitude; akin to G. menge, OHG. managī, menigī, Goth. managei. See Many, a.].

•  The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.  [1913 Webster]

  "After him the rascal many ran."  [1913 Webster]
•  A large or considerable number.  [1913 Webster]

  " In this sense, many is connected immediately with another substantive (without of) to show of what the many consists; as, a good many [of] people think so."  [1913 Webster]

  "A many of our bodies shall no doubt
  Find native graves."  [1913 Webster]

  "Seeing a great many in rich gowns."  [1913 Webster]

  "It will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man."  [1913 Webster]

  "He is liable to a great many inconveniences."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Many, adj. & n.
--adj. (more; most) great in number; numerous (many times; many people; many a person; his reasons were many).
--n. (as pl.)
1 a large number (many like skiing; many went).
2 (prec. by the) the multitude of esp. working people.

Idiom

as many the same number of (six mistakes in as many lines). as many again the same number additionally (sixty here and as many again there). be too (or one too) many for outwit, baffle. a good (or great) many a large number. many-sided having many sides, aspects, interests, capabilities, etc. many-sidedness n. the fact or state of being many-sided. many's the time often (many's the time we saw it). many a time many times.

Etymology

OE manig, ult. f. Gmc

THESAURUS

Many

a mass of, a world of, abounding, abundance, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, army, assorted, at odds, at variance, bevy, billion, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bunch, cloud, clutter, common, considerable, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, copious, countless, covey, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, diffuse, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, effuse, epidemic, ever so many, everyday, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flight, flock, flocks, flush, frequent, frequentative, full, full many, galore, generous, habitual, hail, heaped-up, heterogeneous, hive, hordes, host, in disagreement, in plenty, in quantity, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inexhaustible, inharmonious, innumerable, irreconcilable, jam, jillion, large amount, lavish, legion, liberal, lots, luxuriant, manifold, many and various, many times, masses, masses of, maximal, million, mob, motley, much, muchness, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multiplied, multitude, multitudes, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, nest, no few, not a few, not rare, numberless, numbers, numerous, of all sorts, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, opulent, ordinary, overflowing, pack, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plurality, poles apart, poles asunder, populous, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusion, profusive, quantities, quite a few, quite some, rampant, recurrent, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rout, routine, ruck, running over, scads, scores, separate, separated, several, shoal, shoals, sundry, superabundant, swarm, swarms, teeming, thick-coming, thousand, thousands, throng, tidy sum, tons, unconformable, uncountable, unequal, unlike, usual, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, very many, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, widely apart, worlds apart, worlds of, zillion

ROGET THESAURUS

Many

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Multitude

N multitude, numerous, numerosity, numerality, multiplicity, profusion, legion, host, great number, large number, round number, enormous number, a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy, scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest, crowd, lots, all in the world and his wife, greater number, majority, multiplication, multiple, many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few, Briarean, a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one, some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty, half a dozen, half a hundred, very many, full many, ever so many, numerous, numerose, profuse, in profusion, manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded, galore, thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of, no end of, no end to, cum multis aliis, thick as hops, thick as hail, plenty as blackberries, numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head, and what not, and heaven knows what, endless, their name is 'legion', acervatim, en foule, many- headed multitude, numerous as glittering gems of morning dew, vel prece vel pretio.