MANY ANOTHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does many another mean? 

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

1. each of a large indefinite number

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANY ANOTHER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Each of a large indefinite number

Synonyms:

many a; many an; many another

Context example:

many another day will come

Similar:

many (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 examples 

Yet, as you see, he hath left me, as he hath left many another poor border archer, with no grip for bill or bow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A universal favorite, thanks to money, manners, much talent, and the kindest heart that ever got its owner into scrapes by trying to get other people out of them, he stood in great danger of being spoiled, and probably would have been, like many another promising boy, if he had not possessed a talisman against evil in the memory of the kind old man who was bound up in his success, the motherly friend who watched over him as if he were her son, and last, but not least by any means, the knowledge that four innocent girls loved, admired, and believed in him with all their hearts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It von’t be long that you’ll be able to see my crooks vich ’ave been on Figg’s conk, and on Jack Broughton’s, and on ’Arry Gray’s, and many another good fightin’ man that was millin’ for a livin’ before your fathers could eat pap.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What is here told, he laid his hand heavily and gravely on the packet of papers as he spoke, may be the beginning of the end to you and me and many another; or it may sound the knell of the Un-Dead who walk the earth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And this was the epitaph of a dead dog on the Northland trail—less scant than the epitaph of many another dog, of many a man.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“These are the levies of France, for I can see the ensigns of the Marshal d'Andreghen, with that of the Lord of Antoing and of Briseuil, and of many another from Brittany and Anjou.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)