adjective. Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number.

adjective. Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous.

noun. The majority of the people; the masses.

noun. A large indefinite number.

pronoun. A large number of persons or things.

idiom. (as many) The same number of.

noun. See meiny.

noun. A multitude; a great aggregate; specifically, the mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

noun. A considerable number: with the indefinite article, and followed by of expressed or understood.

noun. [The phrase a many (as well as a pretty many) is now rare or colloquial; yet a good many and a great many are still in common use.]

Being or consisting of a large number of units or individuals; numerous: often used alone, the noun being understood. See many, n.

Being one of a large number; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind: followed by a, an, or another, used distributively. The phrase many a one, so used, was formerly many one without the article.

Being of a certain number, large or small; plural (especially in the phrase the many as opposed to the one): after a term of qualification (as, so, too, and especially how in interrogations): often with the qualified noun omitted: as, how many people were there? how many will go? as many as the room will hold; not so many as before; too many men are dishonest.

Much.

Such a number indefinitely or distributively: as, he took so many of these, and so many of those, and so many of the others.

noun. A retinue of servants; a household.

noun. The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

noun. A large or considerable number.

adjective. Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.

adjective. a large number taken distributively; each one of many.

adjective. many a one; many persons.

adjective. the majority; -- opposed to the few. See Many, n.

adjective. too numerous; hence, too powerful.

noun. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

noun. A considerable number.

determiner. An indefinite large number of.

pronoun. A collective mass of people.

pronoun. An indefinite large number of people or things.

adjective. 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

all  few  

many one  not many  so many  too many  

Manya  galore  legion  many an  many another  

how many  many a  so many  

Beni  Bennie  Benny  Denny  Henie  

all  bad  beautiful  broad  cold  

a mass of  a world of  abounding  abundance  abundant