many a

Examples of many a in a sentence

• Know then that God, to the end He be not thought, / A powerless judge, here plagueth many a fault, / And many a fault leaves here unpunished, / That men may also His last judgment dread.1608–1641, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, edited by Theron Wilber Haight, The Divine Weeks of Josuah Sylvester, Waukesha, Wis., USA: H....
• If the 250,000 miners, which threaten to stop work, go out on strike there is likely to be many an idle mill beside the water courses and many a factory with silent spindles.1908 April 11, “The Coal-Miners and the Wage-Scale”, in The Literary Digest, volume 36, number 15, page 507:
• I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
• Many a crime has being committed in its name: there are some being committed now.1914, David Lloyd George, The Great War, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, page 3:

Forms of many a

Words formed from many a

• many a mickle makes a muckle
• many a time and oft
• many a time and often
• many a time
• many a times
• there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
• there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

Related words

• a fair booty makes many a thief
• many another
• nary a

Questions about many a

What does many a mean?

Many a means being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.

How do you use many a in a sentence?

Know then that God, to the end He be not thought, / A powerless judge, here plagueth many a fault, / And many a fault leaves here unpunished, / That men may also His last judgment dread.

What part of speech is many a?

Many a is a determiner.