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so many

so many adjective: a certain number of; a limited number of.

Adjective

so many (not comparable)

  1. A certain number of; a limited number of.
    • September 2006, Justin Trudeau - speech in Toronto
      But the fact of the matter is, there's only so many people we can take, it's time to take Canada over there.
  2. Great in number; very numerous; a large number of
    • How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!1811, Jane Austen, letter 1811-05-31
    • January 2001, George W. Bush - First Inaugural Address
      I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.

so many meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

so many in Tamil

so many
அத்தனை attaṉai

so many in Sanskrit

so many
तति táti

Examples of so many in a sentence

  • Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
  • I have so many kids, I can't be sure exactly what the number is.

Words formed from so many

Questions about so many

What does so many mean?
So many means a certain number of; a limited number of.
What is so many in Tamil?
So many in Tamil is அத்தனை (attaṉai). See So many meaning in Tamil.
How do you use so many in a sentence?
Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
What part of speech is so many?
So many is an adjective.

Words near so many in the dictionary

  1. so it seems
  2. So Kon Po
  3. so long
  4. so long as
  5. so long, and thanks for all the fish
  6. so many
  7. so mickle
  8. so mote it be
  9. so much
  10. so much as
  11. so much for

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: so many (page history and authors); அத்தனை (Tamil) (page history and authors); तति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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