MANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does many mean? 

• MANY (adjective)
  The adjective MANY has 1 sense:

1. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'as' or 'too' or 'so' or 'that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number

  Familiarity information: MANY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'as' or 'too' or 'so' or 'that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number

Context example:

never saw so many people

Similar:

galore (in great numbers)

many a; many an; many another (each of a large indefinite number)

legion; numerous (amounting to a large indefinite number)

some (relatively many but unspecified in number)

umpteen; umteen (innumerable but many)

Also:

more ((comparative of 'many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number)

some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)

Attribute:

multiplicity; numerosity; numerousness (a large number)

Antonym:

few (a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'a'; a small but indefinite number)

 Context examples 

There was a broad pathway with many tracks upon it at the spot which I had found, so that it was clearly one of the drinking-places of the animals.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Not for many months, dear, unless he is sick.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You may also need to travel within four days of November 12, and thanks to great support from Saturn and Neptune, this trip should be highly successful for you—a delight on many levels.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I was alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people at my door; by which, being suddenly awaked, I was in some kind of terror.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Say, Henry," he asked suddenly, "how many dogs did you say we had?"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When he is married, if we have the good luck to live to another war, we shall see him do as you and I, and a great many others, have done.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), there are too many of a specific type of white blood cell called a myeloblast.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

An aggressive (fast-growing) type of acute myeloid leukemia in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow.

(Acute promyelocytic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

There are many myths about what causes acne.

(Acne, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)