The Collaborative International Dictionary
Many \Ma"ny\, a. & pron.
Note: [It has no variation to express degrees of comparison; more and most, which are used for the comparative and superlative degrees, are from a different root.] [OE. mani, moni, AS. manig, m[ae]nig, monig; akin to D. menig, OS. & OHG. manag, G. manch, Dan. mange, Sw. m[*a]nge, Goth. manags, OSlav. mnog', Russ. mnogii; cf. Icel. margr, Prov. E. mort. [root]103.] Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
Thou shalt be a father of many nations.
--Gen. xvii.
4.
Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called.
--1 Cor. i.
26.
Note: Many is freely prefixed to participles, forming
compounds which need no special explanation; as,
many-angled, many-celled, many-eyed, many-footed,
many-handed, many-leaved, many-lettered, many-named,
many-peopled, many-petaled, many-seeded, many-syllabled
(polysyllabic), many-tongued, many-voiced, many-wived,
and the like. In such usage it is equivalent to
multi. Comparison is often expressed by many with as
or so. ``As many as were willing hearted . . . brought
bracelets.''
--Exod. xxxv. 22. ``So many laws argue so
many sins.''
--Milton. Many stands with a singular
substantive with a or an.
Many a, a large number taken distributively; each one of
many. ``For thy sake have I shed many a tear.''
--Shak.
``Full many a gem of purest ray serene.''
--Gray.
Many one, many a one; many persons.
--Bk. of Com. Prayer.
The many, the majority; -- opposed to the few. See Many, n.
Too many, too numerous; hence, too powerful; as, they are
too many for us.
--L'Estrange.
Syn: Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various; divers; sundry.
Wikipedia
The Many is a 2016 novel by Wyl Menmuir. It follows the story of Timothy, a foreigner who buys an abandoned house in a coastal village only to be spooked by its natives.
In July 2016, it was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
The Many may refer to:
- The Many, a fictional alien communion in the video game System Shock 2
- The Many (novel), a book by Wyl Menmuir
Usage examples of "the many".
So he tapped into one of the many skills he acquired during a life of petty crime, duped the locker key off Moogey's key ring, and by process of lengthy elimination, found the locker.
You are indeed in the time-epoch known as Pliocene and on the planet Earth, which some call Exile and others the Many-Colored Land.
My father sensed that I had a flair for fashion and he knew I loved to browse through the many interesting shops that lined the streets of New York City.
Not knowing that his audience expected a more appropriate theme, he spoke on the many new nations of Africa.
We therefore, who are the registers of that lottery, shall imitate those sagacious persons who deal in that which is drawn at Guildhall, and who never trouble the public with the many blanks they dispose of.
It was one of the many qualities of leadership and human purity for which Barclay would, one day, be recognized on worlds not yet numbered.
The dwarf hadn't changed in the many tendays since Jason had last seen him: a solid, seemingly unchangeable stump of a person, almost as wide as he was tall.
That was one of the many things Valeran had taught him: never surprise a guard accidentally.
Although he was by far the weakest of the many sorcerers aboard, he was the only one who could keep the peace between the two ill-assorted groups.
After the rebellions were put down, the US turned to a program of military aid and training coupled with a cutback of economic aid, a classic mode of pre-coup planning, followed in Chile a few years later, and attempted in Iran with the dispatch of arms via Israel from shortly after the Khomeini takeover -- one of the many crucial elements of the Iran-contra affair suppressed in the subsequent cover-up.
One of the many ways in which Rufus Dawes had obtained the affection of the old blind man was a gift of such fragments of tobacco as he had himself from time to time secured.
But there was at least a fifty/fifty chance that Hackett had been one of the many officers on McQueen's staff who had died when Saint-Just destroyed McQueen's command post with a hidden nuclear device.
If not the Nazarene, then some other of the many ready to die for freedom.
The highway system could be seen as well, wide lines of permacrete on stone pylons linking the many farms and estates.
The nature of the fluid which could produce such mental symptoms was a mystery--a mystery which defied Western science: one of the many strange secrets of Dr.