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Plural of myriad

regular plural

The plural of myriad is myriads.

Forms of myriad

Singularmyriad /ˈmɪɹi.æd/
Pluralmyriads
Countablecountable

Myriads in a sentence

  • It is not that we have merely 'more than one'—we have myriads of flies.[1916], Henry Hanna, “From Kizlar Dagh until the Withdrawal”, in The Pals at Suvla Bay: Being the Record of “D” Company of the 7th Royal…. From the entry superplural
  • Now, like the feel of solid ground in this informational morass, there is a book that will serve as a slipway to launch myriads of new Linuxers.1993, AUUGN, volume 14, number 5, page 45. From the entry Linuxer
  • Forget-me-not Pass was an alpland filled to overflowing with colorful flower displays: red Indian paintbrush, purple asters, yellow buttercups, and, of course, myriads of blue forgetme-nots.1989, Cyndi Smith, Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada, Waterton Park, Atla.: Coyote Books, →ISBN…. From the entry alpland
  • There were snipe in countless myriads, and wild geese in flocks that rose from the jeel with a roar like a goods train crossing an iron bridge.1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days. From the entry jeel
  • Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter XIX, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry conspectus

Meaning of myriad

  1. noun Ten thousand; 10,000.
  2. noun Synonym of decamillennium: a period of 10000 years.
  3. noun A countless number or multitude (of specified things).

Full definition of myriad

Questions about the plural of myriad

What is the plural of myriad?
The plural of myriad is myriads.
Is myriad countable?
Myriad is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myriad (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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