many
determiner, pronoun /ˈmen.i/Definition
A1 used mainly in negative sentences and questions to mean 'a large number of': I don't have many clothes. Not many people have heard of him. There aren't very many weekends between now and Christmas. Were there many cars on the road? How many students are there in each class? Many people would disagree with your ideas. Rachel was at the party with her many admirers. I've met him so many times and I still can't remember his name! There are too many people chasing too few jobs. If there are only five of us going to the concert, then I've booked one too many seats. If there were as many women as there are men in parliament, the situation would be very different. As many as (= the surprisingly large number of) 6,000 people may have been infected with the disease. There are already twelve bottles of wine, so if I buy as many again (= another twelve bottles) we'll have enough. A good/great many people who voted for her in the last election will not be doing so this time. She'd had five children in as many (= in the same number of) years and decided it was enough.Masses and large amounts of things
(Definition of many determinerpronoun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Increasing and intensifying
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Synonyms and related words:
- accumulation noun
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog noun
- battery noun (LARGE NUMBER)
- bucketload noun
- clot noun (PIECE)
- deluge noun
- fund noun
- hump noun (LUMP)
- predominance noun
- preponderance noun
- profusion noun
- pulp noun (WET SUBSTANCE)
- ream noun
- shower noun (MASS)
- sight noun (MUCH)
- spate noun
- thousand number
- tidal wave noun (LARGE NUMBER)
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