myriad

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large indefinite number

   We faced a myriad of details.

2. 2
   noun

   A countless number or multitude (of specified things)

   Earth hosts a myriad of animals.

3. 3
   adj

   Multifaceted, having innumerable elements

   one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].

4. 4
   adj

   Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous

   Earth hosts myriad animals.

5. 5
   adj

   too numerous to be counted

6. 6
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand

7. 7
   noun

   Ten thousand; 10,000

Etymology

From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).