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Definition: Many |
ManyAdjective1. (quantifier used with count nouns; often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that') amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "many" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Many (See Too Many .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Many is a town located in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,889.Geography
Many is located at 31°34'4" North, 93°28'40" West (31.567769, -93.477721)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²). 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,889 people, 1,073 households, and 662 families residing in the town. The population density is 356.4/km² (923.4/mi²). There are 1,272 housing units at an average density of 156.9/km² (406.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 48.18% White, 47.42% African American, 1.70% Native American, 0.48% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.28% from other races, and 1.90% from two or more races. 1.70% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,073 households out of which 32.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.6% are married couples living together, 23.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.3% are non-families. 34.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.41 and the average family size is 3.14. In the town the population is spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 82.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $20,000, and the median income for a family is $24,329. Males have a median income of $28,500 versus $15,870 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,153. 35.5% of the population and 28.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 46.7% are under the age of 18 and 26.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Many, Louisiana."
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For other uses of trinity, please see the disambiguation page. This entry refers to the religious, spiritual, or philosophical uses of the word.
Introduction
In religion, the Trinity is a central doctrine of most branches of Christianity; it says that God is one God, existing in three distinct persons, usually referred to as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Historically, this has been described by the Nicene (325 A.D.), Apostles' (200 A.D.), and Athanasian Creeds (mid 300's A.D.) although it is not explicitly described in the Bible. These creeds were created and endorsed by the orthodox, catholic Church of the third and fourth centuries, and later retained in some form by most Protestants.
The word "Trinity" is often used interchangeably with another term, the "Triune" which means "three in one substance (homoousia)". Since the Nicene Creed used "homousia" to define the relationship among the members of the Godhead, they are considered to be synonymous. The spelling of the word differs by a single Greek letter, "one iota", from the word used by non-trinitarians at the time, "homoiousia", (of similar substance): a fact which has since become proverbial, representing the deep divisions occasioned by seemingly small imprecisions, especially in theology.
Biblical and Theological Discussions
The doctrine of the Trinity does not appear explicitly in the Bible, indeed not even the word itself is found there as the word did not exist until later when Tertullian coined the word in the early third century. There are many passages trinitarians point to as implying the existence of the Trinity. One of the most-cited is the baptism of Jesus Christ: And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him; and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:16-17, RSV). Thus to trinitarians the three persons of the Trinity were made manifest at once. To others however, this clearly violates "three in one substance" as all three manifestations are clearly not of the same matter. This separation and distinction is to non-trinitarians more similar to the Mormon view of Gods. This baptism is commemorated each year in the West as the Baptism of our Lord on the Sunday following Epiphany, and in the East as the Feast of Theophany on January 6.
Christian opponents of the teaching in their turn argue it would be an egregious matter to lack explicitness and point among other things to Biblical passages such as Jesus' reference to "my God and your God" (John 20:17, KJV), his avowed non-omniscience as Son (Mark 13:32), and his words, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God" (Mark 10:18, KJV). Such opponents are a minority among Christians, and have been for most of Christianity's history.
As it exists today the doctrine developed over the centuries as a result of many controversies, such as Arianism, Sabellianism, and Adoptionism. Initially though, the biggest contribution came from the ideas of neoplatonism from philosophers who became Christians. Augustine of Hippo has been noted at the forefront of these ideas and contributed much to the speculative development of the doctrine of the Trinity as it is known today. This has been coined as the Neoplatonic Hypostases or Neoplatonic Logos philosophies. These controversies were for most purposes settled at the Ecumenical Councils, whose creeds affirm the doctrine of the Trinity. Constantine the Great being the first to call the first council in 325 AD arguably had political motives for settling the issue rather than religious reasons as he personally favored the minority of Arianism.
According to the Athanasian Creed, each of these three divine Persons are said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. According to the teachings of orthodox Christianity, the three persons of the Holy Trinity are said to share one Divine Nature, thus preserving their belief in one God. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords. -- Athanasian Creed, line 20
Opponents of this view contend that these three "Persons" are not separate and distinct individuals. They hold that God is numerically one and that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are merely modes, roles or manifestations of God Almighty. These titles describe how humanity has interacted with or had experiences with God. In the Role of The Father, God is the provider and creator of all. In the mode of The Son, man experiences God in the flesh, as a human, fully man and fully God. God manifests Himself as the Holy Spirit by his actions on Earth and within the lives of Christians. This is sometimes known as Modalism or Sabellianism, and was rejected as heresy by the Ecumenical Councils although it is still prevelant today in some Christian denominationss.
Some feminist theologians refer to the persons of the Holy Trinity with more gender-neutral language, such as Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. This is a very recent formulation, and emphasizes their roles rather than their personhood. Since, however, each of the three divine persons participates in the acts of creation, redemption, and sustaining, traditional Christians reject this formulation as simply a new variety of Modalism.
The Trinity
The Father is often thought of as the God who acts throughout the Old Testament and talks to and through Christ in the New Testament. However, all three persons of the Trinity are believed to be clearly present and active in the Creation as described in Genesis 1 and 2. Eastern Orthodox theologians also believe that Abraham's visit by three angels was in fact a visit by the three persons of the Holy Trinity. The Eastern Orthodox icon of the three youths in the fiery furnace (event recorded in the Book of Daniël indicates that the angel walking with them in the furnace was Jesus Christ, the preincarnate second person of the Holy Trinity. The Catholic Church, while accepting these angelic visitations as symbolic of the Trinity, does not identify the angels with the persons of the Trinity themselves.
The Son is Christ, who is described in the book of Hebrews chapter 1:2-3 as ...appointed heir of all things, through whom also He (meaning God) made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person..., whose sacrifice on the cross and subsequent resurrection ransomed souls from hell, opened the portal to heaven for those who want to go or both, depending on which Christian tradition one consults. As the Son, Christ is co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. At the Incarnation, the Son took on human flesh and human nature, and was known to the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore, he was both God and man, not considered to be some kind of phantasm or soulless possessed being, but was just like other humans except for also being God. The Chalcedonian Creed spells out the distinctions between Christ's divine nature and his human nature. Within orthodox Christianity, both Christ's divine nature and human nature are theologically necessary. Without Christ's divine nature, it would be possible to view Christ as simply an ordinary human being which would open up questions about why one should worship Him. Without Christ's human nature, then the sacrifice of Christ of his own life would be rendered meaningless within the context of Christian theology.
The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost) is sometimes thought of as the essence of God embodied as divine or inspired wisdom in people's lives, telling them the proper way to deal with the universe. Many believe that the Holy Spirit is within everyone, the part of God that communicates directly with humans. The traditional Trinitarian view is that the Holy Spirit is a distinct person, co-eternal with the Father and the Son, no more or less eminent than the Father and the Son.
Orthodox and Catholic viewpoints
In Eastern Orthodox theology, the distinction is often described as follows. The three persons of the Trinity share the same divine essence, the same divine nature. (Because there is only one Divine Essence, and the three persons are undivided, there is only one God; thus Trinitarian Christianity remains monotheistic.) The difference between them is only that the Father begets the Son, and the Son is eternally begotten of the Father. The Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father. The Son does not beget or proceed; the Father neither proceeds nor is begotten; the Holy Spirit nether begets nor is it begotten. There are no other differences.
The Western (Catholic) tradition is less abstract. In this view, the Son is the Father's perfect conception of his own self. Since existence is among the Father's perfections, his self-conception must also exist. Since the Father is one, there can be but one perfect self-conception: the Son. Thus the Son is begotten by the Father in an act of intellectual generation. By contrast, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the perfect love that exists between the Father and the Son: and as in the case of the Son, this love must share the perfection of real existence. Therefore, as reflected in the filioque clause inserted into the Nicene Creed by the Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from both the Father "and the Son." The Eastern Orthodox church holds that the filioque clause, i.e., the added words "and the Son" (in Latin, filioque), constitutes heresy. Most Protestant groups that use the creed also include the filioque clause. However, the issue is usually not controversial among them because, their conception is generally less exact than is discussed above. The clause is often understood by Protestants to mean that the Spirit is sent from the Father, by the Son.
One God, Three Persons
Despite this concept of the Trinity, Trinitarian Christians consider theirs a monotheistic faith: the Trinity is regarded as three individual persons, but one God. Several Bible passages suggest this:
Several Jewish and Islamic as well as some Christian theologians have criticized this arithmetic, regarding the doctrine of the Trinity as bordering on, or indeed transgressing into, polytheism and reference passages in the Bible such as:
- Genesis 1:26: Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 3:22: Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever."
- Genesis 11:7: ''"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Isaiah 6:8: Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
Some Muslim scholars have theorized that the Christian viewpoint is a misunderstanding with the terms father and son in the bible being terms of respect as opposed to implying an actual paternal relationship. One argument for this viewpoint is the numerous uses of the phrase "our father" with respect to humanity. This view reflects the Islamic view, which is inconsistent with orthodox Christianity, that Christ was a prophet of God but was not divine himself.
- Deuteronomy 6:4: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.
- Isaiah 44:6: Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Importance of the Doctrine for the Christian Faith
Many Christians believe that the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity is so central to the Christian faith, that to deny it is to reject the Christian faith entirely. However there have been a number of groups both historical and current which identify themselves as Christians but yet have an alternative view of the trinity. One ancient sect, called Ebionism, said that Jesus was not a "Son of God," but rather an ordinary man who was a prophet -- a view of Jesus shared by Islam. Other groups have an understanding of the Trinity that differs from orthodox formulation shared by Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox. These include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jehovah's Witnesses (who reject the Trinity doctrine entirely), Christian Science, the Unification Church, Unitarian Universalists and Oneness Pentecostals (Who believe that there is one God with no essential divisions in His nature. He is not a plurality of persons, but He does have a plurality of manifestations, roles, titles, attributes, or relationships to man. Furthermore, these are not limited to three).
External links
- "The Oneness of God" by David K. Bernard (Series in Pentecostal Theology, Volume 1)
- [1] Andrei Rublev's icon of the Trinity, with discussion of the history of the Trinity in iconography.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, chapter on the Creed.
Trinitarial Concepts in Non-Abrahamic Religions
In the religion Dianic Wicca as well as other branches of Neopaganism, trinity refers to the Maiden, Mother and Crone (or Virgin, Mother and Crone), three versions of the Goddess and the three stages of a woman's life. This concept is itself derived from much earlier mythologies such as the multi-faceted aspect of Morrigan in Irish mythology and Frigg in Norse mythology. Trinity is also used by Egyptologists to describe the Ancient Egypt deities Osiris, Isis, and Horus.
Many Neopagans' concept of all Gods and Goddesses as aspects of a single divine being is similar to the Christian concept of the Trinity, but Neopaganism is not considered monotheistic. Many Hindus also believe that all their Gods and Goddesses are all aspects or part of a single divine being, but Hinduism is not considered monotheistic either.
A trinity also exists in Hindu tradition (The Trimurti): Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, the three main gods. Brahma is the God of Creation, the one who has created the world, Vishnu is the Preserver or the one who sustains the world and Shiva is the God of Destruction, the one who destroys the world, after which the whole cycle of creation, preservation and destruction starts all over again.
The Yin Yang symbol, that is present in many oriental religions, is representing a trinity too. It has three parts: the Yin, the Yang and the circle that unifies the whole. Its signification is simple, this is the unity of the love, the lover and the loved one (Ruzbehan de Chiraz).
The main advantage of this system is that it has no inherent hierarchy. Another advantage is at it can represent anybody or any problematic in the life, like the Chinese have done in the book "the Yi-King", the book of the changes.
External links
- http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/yinyang.htm
- http://rigaut.home.cern.ch/rigaut/YiKing.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trinity."
| Antonym: few (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | World-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many. |
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Crosswords: Many |
| English words defined with "many": as many ♦ many a, many more, Many one ♦ The many, Too many, Too many irons in the fire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "many": Coat of many Colours, countably many ♦ Draft Once ReUse Many ♦ Many a Mickle makes a Muckle, Many Men, Many Minds ♦ Wisdom of Many and the Wit of One. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "many": Yeared. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Many" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkmen (meaning). |
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Screenplays | So many people to kill so little time (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) These doors lead to many places (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Tell me. How many times have we borrowed each other's power tools or patched up each other's kids (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where many men have gone before (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Now get them out of here before she sees them! Look away, just look away, keep your eyes that way! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can't even see the food (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) | |
Lyrics | For so many years I've wondered who you are (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base) Girl, you've been givin' me that line so many times (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) With so many people around (When I Say; performing artist: Air Supply) And many demons lingering (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) So many sleepless nights I wonder (One Day In Your Life; performing artist: Anastacia) | |
Clever | Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. (references; author: Mark Twain) Forbidden fruit creates many jams. (references; author: unknown) So Many Pedestrians - So Little Time. (references; author: unknown) God must love stupid people--He made so many. (references; author: unknown) Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | How many cuckoos could a good cook cook if a cook could cook cuckoos. (references; author: unknown) If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? (references; author: unknown) Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Of Many People (1970) How Many Times (1969) Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing (1968) Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967) One Spy Too Many (1966) | |
Song Titles | LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (performing artist: Four Lads ) How Many Licks? (performing artist: Lil' Kim) TOO MANY FISH IN THE SEA (performing artist: Marvelettes ) How Many Licks? (performing artist: Sisqo) | |
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 | Shown is a computer graphic of tgf-beta molecule. Tgf-beta belongs to a superfamily of fetal inducers and regressors, which signal specific patterns of cellular differentiation. Tgf-beta, a cytokine with three different isoforms, regulates many cellular functions including cell proliferation, differentiation, adhesion and migration. Four novel receptors were characterized that also act as serine/threonine kinases and one of these appears to be a tgf-beta receptor. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Air pollution is a problem in many of the world's large cities. Credit: CDC. |  | Tertiary syphilis occurs many years after initial untreated primary syphilis. Gummas, or internal tissue granulation, form and result in severe damage to the skin, bone, and liver. Credit: CDC. |
 | Astronomers have announced the discovery of at least two, and possibly as many as four, new ... Credit: NASA. |  | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that many stars form ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The Lena River, some 2,800 miles(4,500km) long, is one of the largest rivers in the world. The Lena Delta Reserve is the most extensive protected wilderness area in Russia. It is an important refuge and breeding grounds for many species of Siberian wildlife. Credit: NASA. |  | Underground magnetic observatory built at the University of Wisconsin in 1870's Built under direction of Coast Survey Observations made to Coast Survey specifications One of many academic geophysical observatories built under guidance of C&GS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | William B. McMurtrie Hydrographic draftsman and artist Produced many early views of the West Coast. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | An oiled swan, one of many wildlife victims of the April 7th oil spill in Swanson Creek. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Many postcards" by Jewel Collins Commentary: "In my postcards series. inspired by the ataris song: "postcards on the floor/ but this pen can't write lonliness no more."." | "Many Flowers" by Luke Wertz Commentary: "Not sure what kind of flowers these are. Obviously the photo has been edited for artistic value (made all the non-pink flowers b&w)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Success has ruined many a man. |
| Read much, but not many books. | |
Bronson Alcott | Many can argue; not many converse. |
John Heywood | Many hands make light work. |
| Ye have many strings to your bow. | |
Luis De Camoens | To many fame comes too late. |
Phaedrus | First appearance deceives many. |
| Success tempts many to their ruin. | |
Solon | Poets tell many lies. |
Virgil | One composed of many. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Given under our hand - the above named and many others being witnesses - in the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | To which in the state of nature there are many things wanting. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | There are many other parts of the constitution which serve to illustrate this subject. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | In my father's house are many mansions. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Today, in contrast, many Negroes have achieved outstanding success in the arts and sciences as well as in the business and professional world. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Many circumstances assisted the temptation |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thirty years ago, at the period of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of June, it was still, in many places, almost the ancient sewer |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Many good morrows to my noble lord |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | So many years she had timed her responses to the pauses |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Proctitis has many causes. (references) | |
Dysphagia has many causes. (references) | ||
Cirrhosis has many causes. (references) | ||
Business | ISDN has many benefits. (references) | |
Convergence has many different forms. (references) | ||
Not many buying groups operate in Italy. (references) | ||
Children | Namibia | Many San children do not attend school. (references) |
Philippines | Widespread poverty forces many young children to work. (references) | |
El Salvador | Many disabilities are directly attributable to the civil war. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | Many had their homes destroyed. (references) |
Korea | Many return after securing food. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | Many depend on the charity of NGO's. (references) | |
Discrimination | Bhutan | It also committed many abuses against the ethnic Nepalese, which led to the departure of tens of thousands of them. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the Dayton Accords, the parties agreed to reject discrimination on such grounds as sex, race, color, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, or association with a national minority; nevertheless, there were many cases of discrimination. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Many speak English. (references) |
Human Rights | Mexico | Many kidnapings were not reported. (references) |
China | Many are not well versed in the law. (references) | |
Somalia | Abuse by guards reportedly was common in many prisons. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | This led to the displacement of many tribal groups, such as the Chakmas and Marmas. (references) |
Congo | Many never have heard of the concept of voting and had minimal ability to influence government decisions affecting their interests. (references) | |
Gabon | Pygmies did not participate in government-instituted programs that integrated many small rural villages into larger ones along major roads. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Today many are unable to rise above mid-level ranks. (references) |
China | Many Uighurs have been detained for listening to RFA. (references) | |
Netherlands | Many complaints concern discrimination in the workplace. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | Crop loss in many areas averaged 75 percent. (references) |
Syria | Businessmen hold many of the independent seats. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Many past human rights abuses remain unresolved. (references) | |
Political Rights | Belarus | Many flaws also were noted in the counting process. (references) |
Seychelles | Many Democratic Party supporters apparently voted for Ramkalawan. (references) | |
Kenya | In elections many local officials actively assist the ruling KANU. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | In Brazil, many standards are voluntary. (references) |
Israel | Israel levies purchase taxes on many consumer goods. (references) | |
Switzerland | Many well known cartels, as a result, have disappeared. (references) | |
Travel | Venezuela | Caracas has many daily newspapers. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Abidjan's restaurants are many and varied. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | The week is defined as in many European countries. (references) | |
Women | Philippines | Many PNP stations included female officers. (references) |
Armenia | Men often play a dominant role in many societal institutions. (references) | |
Korea | In many small factories, the work force is predominantly female. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kenya | Many NGO's also are active in this area. (references) |
Sierra Leone | Many became fighters with the rebel forces. (references) | |
Singapore | Many contracts allow only 1 day off per month. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Jones | We believe it is very clear from the scripture that homosexuality is a sin. Very clear. Adultery is a sin, there are many other sins. |
Dennis Miller | Too many people are getting away with behavior they should be called on. |
Elton John | God, female artists. There's so many of them. India Arie has been nominated for a lot of Grammies. And she's from Georgia, too. And I think she's brilliant. |
Gray Davis | I can't go into too many details, but one federal agency believes it is credible. They have reported to the FBI. The FBI is checking it out. |
Lynne Cheney | That's right. That's right. And you can point to all the damage that drugs have done to so many people's lives. And alcohol, as well. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Yeah. I mean, obviously, you know. And it's incredible to see how she touched the lives of so many people around her. |
Robert Novak | Al, for many years my late partner Rowland Evans would comment at this time on Art Buchwald. And let's listen to what Rowlie said about Art just a year ago. |
Rush Limbaugh | Many of the communist movement's useful idiots still exist in the press. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | With many of the other Indian tribes improvements in agriculture and household manufacture are advancing, and with all our peace and friendship are established on grounds much firmer than heretofore. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | From one of them we derive our very language and from many of them much of the genius of our institutions. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | A great many veterans and workers with new skills and experience will want to start in for themselves. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To be back among so many friends is a happy one. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Now, many believe that President Johnson's decision to send American combat forces to South Vietnam was wrong. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Well, today, many have not yet seen how advances in technology are transforming our lives. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Teach them that of all the many gifts they can receive, liberty is their most precious legacy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Today too many of those people are being left out. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Many" is generally used as a determiner (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Many" is used about 89,565 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Determiner (general) | 100% | 89,564 | 101 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89,565 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "many" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Many | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,946 |
| Many | Last name | 300 | 28,673 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Many, LA (town, FIPS 48470) |
Expressions using "many": a good many ♦ a good many of them ♦ a great many ♦ as many ♦ as many as ♦ as many more ♦ at so many years' purchase ♦ be open to many objections ♦ before many years ♦ carry too many guns for one ♦ countably many ♦ draft Once ReUse Many ♦ feel one too many ♦ for many a long day ♦ full many a flower ♦ full many a time ♦ go through many trials ♦ have many irons in the fire ♦ have too many eggs in one basket imprudent ♦ have too many irons in the fire ♦ having many children ♦ how many ♦ how many are you? ♦ how many days ♦ how many of them ♦ how many students? ♦ how many times ♦ how many times? ♦ in many cases ♦ in many directions ♦ in many places ♦ in many respects ♦ in many ways ♦ lasting many years ♦ life holds many surprises ♦ many a ♦ many a mickle makes a muckle ♦ many a time ♦ many a time and oft ♦ many an ♦ many another ♦ many different ♦ Many Farms ♦ many happy returns ♦ many happy returns of the day ♦ many happy returns of the day! ♦ many happy returns! ♦ many irons in the fire ♦ many kinds of ♦ many men many minds ♦ many more ♦ many more besides ♦ many of them ♦ Many one ♦ many other ♦ many people ♦ many thanks for your kindness ♦ many thanks! ♦ many thousands of times ♦ many time and oft ♦ many times ♦ many times over ♦ many tried it ♦ many years back ♦ mother of many children ♦ not many ♦ number of many figures ♦ of many years ♦ of many years standing ♦ on many accounts ♦ screw loose: too many cooks ♦ show many colors ♦ show many colours ♦ so many ♦ so many times ♦ so many years' purchase ♦ the many ♦ there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip ♦ they keep many servants ♦ this many ♦ this many a day ♦ Too many ♦ too many eggs in one basket ♦ Too many irons in the fire ♦ very many ♦ vote many times ♦ wish many happy returns of the day ♦ with many interruptions ♦ worth so many years' purchase. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "many": many-acred, many-angled, many-arched, many-armed, many-body, many-branched, many-breasted, many-celled, many-centred, many-coated, many-colored, many-coloured, many-dimensioned, many-electron, many-eyed, many-faced, many-faceted, many-finned, many-fold, many-formed, many-gabled, many-headed, many-hued, many-hundred, many-jointed, many-layered, many-legged, many-levelled, many-lump, many-many, Many-minded, many-mirrored, many-one, many-ones, many-paned, many-parted, many-partedness, many-party, many-personed, many-petalled, many-pocketed, many-roomed, many-segmented, many-shaped, many-sided, many-sided person, many-sided question, Many-sidedness, many-spotted, many-stage, many-steepled, many-storeyed, many-stranded, many-tailed, many-talented, many-tasting, many-tentacled, many-tiered, many-times, many-times-great, many-times-severed, many-to-few, many-to-many, many-to-one, many-valued, many-windowed, many-worlds. | |
Ending with "many": one-many, one-to-many. | |
Containing "many": i-don't-know-how-many-years. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "many"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | party (a lot of, celebration, festival, much, party, plenty, plenty of), baie (a lot, a lot of, much, plenty, plenty of, quite, very, very much). (various references) | |
Albanian | shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely). (various references) | |
Arabic | كثير (abundant, ample, bags of, considerable, copious, lots of, much, numerous, overblown, plentiful), عدد كثير, السواد الأعظم. (various references) | |
Basque | batzuk, asko (much, very). (various references) | |
Breton | pet (how many), bet (been, had, how many). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | многоброен (manifold, multiform, multiple, multitudinous, numerous, strong, thick), много хора, много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), множество (host, legion, loads of, mass, multiplicity, multitude, plurality, regiment, scores, set, swarm, throng, troop, variety, wilderness). (various references) | |
Catalan | moltes. (various references) | |
Chinese | 许多 (Multitude), 諸 (all, various), 許多 (a lot of, much), 烝 (advance, steam), 繁雜 (diverse), 繁 (complicated, in great numbers), 稠 (crowded, dense, thick), 沓 (again and again), 濔 (numerous), 好多 , 多 (a lot of, much, multi-, numerous), 大多 (for the most part, most, mostly, the greater part), 夥 (assistant, great, numerous, partner). (various references) | |
Czech | mnoho (dozens, much), množství (amount, bulk, lot, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantity, quantum, shoal, volume). (various references) | |
Danish | mange. (various references) | |
Dutch | vele, veel (frequently, much, often, plenty of, regularly), menig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | multaj. (various references) | |
Faeroese | mangir, nógvir (several). (various references) | |
Farsi | چندین (Lot, Multiple, Several, Various), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), خیلی (Copious, Damn, Extra, Far, Jolly, So, Ten, Very), بسیاری (Multitude, Plenty), بسیار (Abundant, All, Damn, Extra, Far, Galore, Lot, Manifold, Much, Multifarious, Plenty, Precious, Somush, Sopping, Sorely, Very), بسا. (various references) | |
Finnish | monta, moni (a lot of, much), monet (several), useat (a great many, a number, several, various), usea, paljon (a lot of, far, much, plenty of). (various references) | |
French | nombreux (manifold), beaucoup (a great many). (various references) | |
Frisian | hoefolle (how many, how much). (various references) | |
German | viele (a great number of, a lot, a lot of, lots of, many people, plenty of, umpteen, various), vielen (a lot of), viel (a great deal, a great deal of, a lot, a lot of, deal, extensively, lots of, much, plenty of, some), mancher. (various references) | |
Greek | πολλοί (a lot, hoi polloi, lots, many a, plenty), πολοί. (various references) | |
Guarani | heta. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | konbyen (how many, how much). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | sa (how many, how much). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הרבה (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, lots of, much, plenty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | számos (a number of, numerous, several, time and again), sok (a good deal, a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a number of, excess, lot, lots of, much, much/many, muckle, multi, numerous, oodles, power, respectable, scores, several, to thumb). (various references) | |
Indonesian | banyak (excessively, have a lot of, in great quantities, much, multitude, numerous, plenty). (various references) | |
Irish | iomaí. (various references) | |
Italian | molti (many people, much), molte. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沢山 (a lot, much), 多い (numerous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さんぜん (3000, brilliance, prior to childbirth, radiance, Zen meditation), とかく (anyhow, anyway, be apt to, generally speaking, in any case, somehow or other, this and that), あまた (a lot, much, multitude), いくつもの (anumber of), いくた (numerous), かずかず, かた (data-type, excess, lagoon, model, mold, person, plentiful, shape, shoulder, style, superabundance), ち (blood, consanguinity, earth, thousand), さんびゃく (300), たくさん (a lot, much), ぼんぴゃく (many kinds), ぼんひゃく (many kinds), しょ (several, various), おおく (abundantly, largely, mostly, much), おおい (cover, mantle, numerous, shroud), おおぜい (crowd), すうた (a lot, much, multitude), ばん (all, barbarian, evening, record, shallow bowl, size, tray). (various references) | |
Korean | 많은 것. (various references) | |
Luganda | emeka (how many). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | wéivill (how many, how much). (various references) | |
Malagasy | firy (how many). (various references) | |
Malay | banyak (a lot of, much, plenty of). (various references) | |
Manx | ram (lot, much, plenty, umpteen), mooarane (a lot, great deal, more numerous, much, multitude), mooaran (much). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hvor mye (how many, how much). (various references) | |
Occitan | mantun. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kuantu (how many, how much), kuanto (how many, how much), cuántu (how many). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anymay.(various references) | |
Polish | wielu, liczni. (various references) | |
Portuguese | muitos (lot, umpteen), muitas. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | muitos, muitas. (various references) | |
Quechua | mashka (how many). (various references) | |
Romanian | multe, mulţi (not a few, numerous, umpteen), mare numãr de, o mulţime de (a lot of, a sight, lots of). (various references) | |
Russian | много многий, много (a good deal, a great deal of, a great number of, a large number of, a lot, a lot of, a whole lot, good deal, good deal of, great deal, lot, much, plenty, plenty of). (various references) | |
Scottish | móran (great number, great quantity, much). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mnogo (deal: a good deal, deal: a great deal, deal: a great deal of, great, lot, lot: a lot of, lots of, much, multi, plenty, plenty of, quite a few, vastly, very), mnogi, vazdan (all day long), puno (full time, lot: a lot, lot: a lot of). (various references) | |
Somali | immisa (how many, how much). (various references) | |
Sotho | kae (how many, where). (various references) | |
Spanish | muchos (lots, much, numerous), muchas. (various references) | |
Swahili | ngapi (how many). (various references) | |
Swedish | många (lots of, multiple), flera (more, more numerous, several, various). (various references) | |
Tagalog | maraming (lots of). (various references) | |
Thai | เท่าไร (how, how many, how much). (various references) | |
Tswana | kae (how, how many, where). (various references) | |
Turkish | bir yığın (bags of, heap, plenty), bir hayli (a fair sum, a great deal, numerous), bir çoğu, bírçok (a lot of, much, plenty of), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kцp (a lot, much), enзeme (a lot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | численні, велика кількість (armful, array, deal, majuscule, much, number, numbers, scads, superfluity), багато які, багато (a lot, a lot of, abundantly, considerably, deep, galore, lots of, much, no end of, not a few, opulently, prodigally, richly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quần chúng (demos, mob, populace), nhiều người số đông, nhiều cái, nhiều (abounding, abundant, affluent, considerably, different, full, lot, lousy, much, multifarious, multiple, numerously, spate, teemful, widely). (various references) | |
Welsh | ymwng (ample, frequent), llawer (much). (various references) | |
Wolof | ñaata (how much/how many). (various references) | |
Xhosa | uneminyaka (How many years). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ya'abo'ob, ya'abkach. (various references) | |
Zulu | -ningi (more). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | e, lu. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | polys. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conpluribus, longiturnis, multa, multae, multaeque, multôs, multam, multamque, multaque, multarum, multas, multi, multi-, multique, multis, multo, multoque, multorum, multos, multum, multumque, multus, multusque, plûribus, pliadis, plura, plures, pluribus, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus, pluris, plus, quanta, quantae, quantam, quantas, quanti, quantis, quanto, quantocumque, quantoque, quantum, quantus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | paoirîsh, paoiri, pouru. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fela, manig. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 10, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai episteusan polloi ekei eiV auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnia autem quaecumque dixit Iohannes de hoc vera erant et multi crediderunt in eum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & manega ge-lefdan on hyne. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And alle thingis what euer Joon seide of this, weren sothe. And many bileueden in hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And many beleved on him theare. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And many believed on him there. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And many believed on him there. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And a number came to have faith in him there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 10, Verse 42 |
| Cebuano | Ug daghan ang mga misalig kang Jesus didto. |
| Chinese | 在 那 裡 信 耶 穌 的 人 就 多 了 。 |
| Croatian | Mnogi ondje povjerovaše u njega. |
| Danish | Og mange troede på ham der. |
| Dutch | En velen geloofden aldaar in Hem. |
| Finnish | Ja monet siellä uskoivat häneen. |
| French | Et, dans ce lieu-là, plusieurs crurent en lui. |
| German | Und glaubten allda viele an ihn. |
| Haitian Creole | Anpil moun la te kwè nan Jezi. |
| Hungarian | És sokan hivének ott õ benne. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu banyak orang di sana percaya kepada Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka banyaklah orang percaya akan Yesus di situ. |
| Italian | E in quel luogo molti credettero in lui. |
| Korean | 그 리 하 여 거 기 서 많 은 사 람 이 예 수 를 믿 으 니 라 |
| Maori | A he tokomaha o reira i whakapono ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Og mange trodde på ham der. |
| Portuguese | E muitos ali creram nele. |
| Rumanian | Wi mulyi au crezut kn El kn locul acela. |
| Shuar | Nuisha Untsurí Jesusan Enentáimtusarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y muchos creyeron en él allí. |
| Swahili | Watu wengi mahali hapo wakamwamini. |
| Swedish | Och många kommo där till tro på honom. |
| Uma | Toe pai' wori' tauna hi ree mepangala' hi Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "many": manyfold. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "many": overmany. (additional references) | |
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"Many" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amani, Amney, Amni, Imani, jany, maan, Maby, mady, maendy, mafn, Magnie, magny, mahn, Mahy, Mainie, Mainy, Mainyu, Maiyu, Maly, Mamy, mancy, mand, mandys, Maney, mang, manh, mani, manie, manig, manip, Manix, mank, manky, mann, manni, Mannix, manny, mannys, manq, mant, manuy, manv, Manyo, manyr, manys, manz, marny, maunby, mavn, maxy, mayne, Meani, meanys, meeney, meeny, megy, meinie, menh, meni, menj, Menni, menny, meny, Mfanya, miky, mincy, mindy, minky, minty, Minyip, miqy, mivy, Moanie, moany, Moncy, moni, monie, monny, monry, mony, morny, Moyn, Munni, munny, muny, Muzny, myc, Namy, nandy, nani, nany, Nanyo, neny, nyanya, oany, vany. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "many" (pronounced me"nē) |
| 3 | -e" n ē | antennae, any, Benny, Jenny, penny. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: myna. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-y" | |
-1 letter: any, man, may, nam, nay, yam. | |
-2 letters: am, an, ay, ma, my, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-y" | |
+1 letter: anomy, mangy, manly, mayan, meany, mynah, mynas, yamen, yamun. | |
+2 letters: anonym, bayman, baymen, byname, cayman, dynamo, flyman, hymnal, infamy, layman, laymen, mainly, mangey, maundy, maying, mayvin, meanly, minyan, mynahs, namely, nympha, paynim, skyman, tympan, yamens, yamuns, yeoman. | |
+3 letters: acronym, alimony, allonym, almonry, amboyna, amenity, aminity, amnesty, amylene, anatomy, anomaly, anonyms, antonym, anymore, anytime, bogyman, bynames, calumny, caymans, company, damnify, daysman, daysmen, drayman, draymen, dynamic, dynamos, gymnast, harmony, humanly, hymenal, hymenia, hymnals, hymnary, juryman, magnify, mangaby, mangily, manlily, manuary, masonry, mayings, mayvins, minyans, nummary, nymphae, nymphal, paronym, payment, paynims, pygmean, syngamy, tympana, tympani, tympano, tympans, tympany, unmanly, womanly, yardman, yardmen, yeggman, zymosan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Cities | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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