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adjective

Many adj., pron. (It has no variation to express degrees of comparison; more and most, which are used for the comparative and superlative degrees, are from a different root) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few. "Thou shalt be a father of many nations." "Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." Note: Many is freely prefixed to participles, forming compounds which need no special explanation; as, many-angled, many-celled, many-eyed, many-footed, many-handed, many-leaved, many-lettered, many-named, many-peopled, many-petaled, many-seeded, many-syllabled (polysyllabic), many-tongued, many-voiced, many-wived, and the like. In such usage it is equivalent to multi. Comparison is often expressed by many with as or so. "As many as were willing hearted... brought bracelets." "So many laws argue so many sins." Many stands with a singular substantive with a or an.

Many a, a large number taken distributively; each one of many. "For thy sake have I shed many a tear." "Full many a gem of purest ray serene."

Many one, many a one; many persons.

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.

Synonyms: Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various; divers; sundry.

noun

Many n. A retinue of servants; a household. (Obs.)

Many n.

The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community. "After him the rascal many ran."

A large or considerable number. "A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves." "Seeing a great many in rich gowns." "It will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man." Note: 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. "He is liable to a great many inconveniences."

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... the great Plantagenet, in order to prevent the multiplication of fortified places of offence as well as defence by tyrannical barons or other oppressors of the commonwealth; for in the days of Stephen, as we have remarked already, many, if not most, of such holds had been little better than dens of robbers, as the piteous lament which concludes the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" ...

— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake

... first," and without any more saying ran herself through the body with a sword. Vibius Virrius, despairing of the safety of his city besieged by the Romans and of their mercy, in the last deliberation of his city's senate, after many arguments conducing to that end, concluded that the most noble means to escape fortune was by their own hands: telling them that the enemy would have them in honour, and Hannibal would be sensible how many faithful friends he ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... Signor Sabaste that his son is restored to him and that two criminals, though they are our countrymen, are to be sent from America, where too many such have come and belittled the name of Italy. But men like Signor Sabaste ...

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... a larger number of flowers, and these set a larger proportional number of fruit, which however yield a lower average number of seed, than the long-styled plants. With heterostyled plants we thus see in how many and in what important characters the forms of the same undoubted species often differ from one another—characters which with ordinary plants would be amply sufficient to distinguish species ...

— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin

... of more proximate knowledge which we would more especially like to acquire, I suppose we should ask for the secret of interracial sterility. Nothing has yet been discovered to remove the grave difficulty, by which Huxley in particular was so much oppressed, that among the many varieties produced under domestication—which we all regard as analogous to the species seen in nature—no clear case of interracial sterility has been demonstrated. The phenomenon is probably the only one to which the domesticated products seem to afford no parallel. No solution of the difficulty ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

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