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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

many

SYLLABICATION:	man·y
PRONUNCIATION:	mn
ADJECTIVE:	Inflected forms: more ( môr, mr), most ( mst) 1. Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous: many a child; many another day. 2. Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number: many friends.
NOUN:	(used with a pl. verb) 1. A large indefinite number: A good many of the workers had the flu. 2. The majority of the people; the masses: “The many fail, the one succeeds” (Tennyson).
PRONOUN:	(used with a pl. verb) A large number of persons or things: “For many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14).
IDIOM:	as many The same number of: moved three times in as many years.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, from Old English manig. See menegh- in Appendix I.


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