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many

determiner & adjective

1 he has many faults:

numerous, a great/good deal of, a lot of, a large/great number of, great quantities of, plenty of, countless, innumerable, scores of, crowds of, droves of, an army of, a horde of, a multitude of, a multiplicity of, multitudinous, numberless, multiple, untold;

several, various, sundry, diverse, assorted, multifarious;

copious, abundant, profuse, an abundance of, a profusion of;

frequent;

informal lots of, umpteen, eleventy, loads of, masses of, stacks of, scads of, heaps of, piles of, bags of, tons of, oodles of, dozens of, hundreds of, thousands of, millions of, billions of, zillions of, more … than one can shake a stick at;

British, informal shedload;

North American, informal a slew of, gazillions of, bazillions of, gobs of;

Australian, New Zealand, informal a swag of;

vulgar slang a shitload of;

literary myriad, divers.

▷antonyms few.

2 (the many) sacrificing the individual for the sake of the many:

the people, the common people, the masses, the multitude, the majority, the populace, the public, the rank and file, the crowd, the commonalty, the commonality;

derogatory the hoi polloi, the common herd, the mob, the proletariat, the rabble, the riff-raff, the great unwashed, the canaille, the proles, the plebs.

▷antonyms aristocracy.

word links	many
multi- related prefix, as in multicoloured, multibuy poly- related prefix, as in polytechnic, polyunsaturated

many Oxford Dictionary of English