Myriad

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: myr=i=ad

CIDE DICTIONARY

Myriad, n. [Gr. , , fr. numberless, pl. ten thousand: cf. F. myriade.].

•  The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.  [1913 Webster]
•  An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.  [1913 Webster]

Myriad, a. 

 Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Myriad, n. & adj. literary
--n.
1 an indefinitely great number.
2 ten thousand.
--adj. of an indefinitely great number.

Etymology

LL mirias miriad- f. Gk murias -ados f. murioi 10,000

THESAURUS

Myriad

G, M, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, billion, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, considerable, copiousness, ever so many, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full many, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, grand, great abundance, great plenty, gush, heaped-up, jillion, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, lakh, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, many, maximum, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, million, more than enough, much, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriads, no few, not a few, numerous, numerousness, one hundred thousand, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, quite some, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, shower, spate, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, teemingness, ten thousand, thou, thousand, very many, wealth, yard, zillion

ROGET THESAURUS

Myriad

Five

N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.