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  2. Myriad - Wikipedia

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    Myriad may be used either as an adjective (there are myriad people outside) or as a noun (there is a myriad of people outside), [5] but there are small differences. The former might imply that it is a diverse group of people whereas the latter usually does not.

  3. Talk:Myriad - Wikipedia

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    One sentence says: "It is often incorrectly used as a noun." But surely when it's used as a number, this can be usage as a noun. It may be that this sentence applies only to use "when unspecified". If so, it would be good to make that clearer. On correct usage the example is given of "There is a myriad of people outside."

  4. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Myriad: 10,000 Loosely refers to a very large quantity Pair: 2 Often in reference to identical objects Trio: 3 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Few: 3 Small number of something Quartet: 4 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Great gross: 1,728 A dozen gross ...

  5. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Examples are words such as five, ten, fifty, one hundred, etc. They may or may not be treated as a distinct part of speech; this may vary, not only with the language, but with the choice of word. For example, "dozen" serves the function of a noun, "first" serves the function of an adjective, and "twice" serves the function of an adverb.

  6. Ten thousand years - Wikipedia

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    Mount Song, the location where the phrase "Ten thousand years" was coined. In Chinese, ten thousand or "myriad" is the largest numerical order of magnitude in common usage, and is used ubiquitously as a synonym for "indefinitely large number".

  7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is Strč prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."

  8. Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity

  9. The Sand Reckoner - Wikipedia

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    The number system in use at that time could express numbers up to a myriad (μυριάς — 10,000), and by utilizing the word myriad itself, one can immediately extend this to naming all numbers up to a myriad myriads (10 8). [3] Archimedes called the numbers up to 10 8 "first order" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second order".