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say it: MIR-ee-uhd
myriad is a noun and adjective meaning "a large indefinite number". It is pronounced /ˈmɪɹiəd/ — MIR-ee-uhd. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
too numerous to be counted
“countless hours”
“an infinite number of reasons”
“innumerable difficulties”
“the multitudinous seas”
“myriad stars”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for myriad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.