noun
myriad
MIH-ree-ad
noun
1
A huge or countless number of something.
"The city offers a myriad of restaurants to choose from."
"She faced a myriad of challenges in her first year running the business."
adj
1
Extremely numerous; too many to count.
"The proposal raised myriad concerns among staff."
How to Use Myriad
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn enormous, hard-to-count number of things.
Common mistake
Both "a myriad of problems" and "myriad problems" (no "of") are widely accepted in modern English, though some traditionalists prefer the adjective form without "of."
Common pairings
a myriad of
myriad reasons
myriad ways
Word Forms
myriads plural
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek murioi ("countless, ten thousand"), via Latin and French — originally used to mean exactly ten thousand before it came to mean simply "a huge number."