Many A

Definition: Many A

Many A

Adjective

1. Each of a large indefinite number; "many a man"; "many another day will come".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Many A

Diuturnity

Adverb: long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago; (in a past time); longo intervallo.

Frequency

Adverb: often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly; unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly; every day, every hour, every moment;

Repetition

Again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently.

Crosswords: Many A

I took many a lump, but 'twas all in fun! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Many a man has gone to bed feeling well, only to wake up the next morning and find himself dead. (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad. (A Matter of Life and Death; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger)

There's many a man alive of no more value than a dead dog. (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell)

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy ("House of the Rising Sun"; performing artist: The Animals)

Many a Slip (1931)

There's Many a Slip (1925)

Many a Slip (1917)

There's Many a Slip (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Star on Many a Battlefield : Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Kargce in the American Civil War (reference)

• Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: And Point Counter Point, After Many a Summerdies the Swan, Eyeless in Gaza (reference)

• Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters: With Technical Notes on Leather Slapping As a Fine Art, Gathered from Many a Loose Holstered Expert over t (reference)

• After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (reference)

• Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters: With Technical Notes on Leather Slapping As a Fine Art, Gathered from Many a Loose Holstered Expert over the Years (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Things saved for many a day are confided at the fair, Albany, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. Without the aid of the New Guinea natives, many a wounded Allied soldier might have died in the trackless jungles. Native carriers "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" are shown bringing wounded troops into an advanced Amer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rule. (reference)

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Many a time afterwards had Hester been tortured, though less vividly, by the same illusion.

I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea.

Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Many may recall that "crack babies," or babies born to mothers who used cocaine while pregnant, were written off by many a decade ago as a lost generation. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

They should be aware of the prolonged lack of liquidity in Mexico, which causes many a firm to default or delay payments. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "many a": for many a long day ♦ full many a flower ♦ full many a time ♦ many a mickle makes a muckle ♦ many a time ♦ many a time and oft ♦ there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip ♦ this many a day. Additional references.

Czech

nejednou (many a time), neříkej hop, dokud jsi nepřeskoèil (there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip). (various references)

Finnish

moni mies (many a man, many men), monesti (many a time, many times, often), mones (many a time, many times, often), useita kertoja (many a time, many times). (various references)

French

maint. (various references)

German

manch ein. (various references)

Greek 

πολλοί (a lot, hoi polloi, lots, many, plenty). (various references)

Hungarian

valaha (as ever, ci-devant, erst, ever, in the world, it's many a day, Lane, once, sometime), sokszor (many a time, many times, often, oftentimes, oft-times, scores of time), sok ember (many a man, many a one, many people), igen régen (it's many a day). (various references)

Italian

parecchio (a lot of, many an, much, quite a lot, rather a long, rather a lot, several, some). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一日千秋 (impatiently, many a weary day). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いちにちせ�"しゅう (impatiently, many a weary day), いちじつせ�"しゅう (impatiently, many a weary day). (various references)

Manx

ymmodee keayrtyn (dozens of times, many a time), ny keayrtyn (many a time, sometimes), laa ny ghaa (many a day), keayrt ny ghaa (many a time, on several occassions). (various references)

Pig Latin

anymay aay

Romanian

nenumãrate flori (full many a flower), demult (of old, this many a day), de multe ori (many a time, often, time and again), adesea (frequently, many a time, many times, minutely, oft, often, regularly, repeatedly). (various references)

Russian 

нередко (as often as not, many a time, more often than not, not infrequently). (various references)

Scottish

iomadh (many a time, much : iomadh uair). (various references)

Spanish

algunas (a few, many an, some), algun. (various references)

Swedish

många gånger (many a time, many times). (various references)

Turkish

damlaya damlaya göl olur (many a mickle makes a muckle). (various references)

multa, multae, multaeque, multam, multamque, multaque, multarum, multas, multi, multique, multis, multo, multoque, multorum, multos, multum, multumque, multus, multusque, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mayan.

-1 letter: mana, many, maya, myna.

-2 letters: ama, ana, any, man, may, nam, nay, yam.

-3 letters: aa, am, an, ay, ma, my, na, ya.

+1 letter: bayman, cayman, layman.

+2 letters: amboyna, anatomy, anomaly, caymans, daysman, drayman, mangaby, manuary, tympana, yardman.

+3 letters: adamancy, adynamia, adynamic, amboynas, amenably, animally, cyanamid, dairyman, damnably, gymkhana, gymnasia, handyman, hogmanay, laminary, laywoman, mahogany, mainstay, mangabey, manually, maryjane, naumachy, pygmaean, rampancy, seamanly, syntagma, tallyman, tympanal, yachtman.

+4 letters: accompany, adamantly, adynamias, amazingly, amygdalin, amyotonia, animality, animately, anisogamy, candygram, clamantly, cyanamide, cyanamids, damnatory, dynamical, gymkhanas, hogmanays, hypomania, imaginary, kanamycin, mainstays, mandatary, mandatory, mangabeys, manically, manslayer, maryjanes, myrobalan, pantryman, paranymph, pyromania, quarryman, rampantly, safetyman, salaryman, salarymen, shantyman, syntagmas, yachtsman.

+5 letters: abnormally, abominably, aerenchyma, alarmingly, alimentary, amendatory, amygdalins, amyotonias, anemically, aneurysmal, animatedly, antifamily, autumnally, bimanually, candygrams, cavalryman, cavalrymen, cyanamides, damagingly, flamboyant, highwayman, hypermania, hypomanias, imaginably, kanamycins, lamentably, laundryman, malignancy, manageably, maniacally, manslayers, marginally, maternally, mayonnaise, monaurally, myasthenia, myrobalans, mythomania, paranymphs, parenchyma, playmaking, pyromaniac, pyromanias, shaggymane, syntagmata.

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