Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Many
many, adj. [OE manig.] (webplay: cups, doors, gathered, keys, mansions, questions, wanderings). Not a few; one of a large but indefinite number regarded distributively.
- Numerous; a high count of.
- Phrase. “Full many a”: a very great number of.
- Phrase. “This many”: for several of; not a few of; numerous occurrence of.
- Phrase. “Many a”: great numbers of.
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